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Daniel Day-Lewis [1957-0] British

Rank: 101
Actor

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor. He holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years.

Chance, Design, Relationship, Sad, Time

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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.		101
I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.	Time	102
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.		103
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.		104
A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.		105
It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.	Sad	106
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.	Chance, Design	107
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.		108
I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.		109
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.	Relationship	110
My main memories of my father are of his illness.		111
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.		112
To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.		113
As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'		114
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.		115
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.		116
I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.		117
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.		118
I'm not picky, quite honestly.		119
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.		120
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.		121
When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.		122
When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.		123
I like to cook things very slowly.		124
The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.		125
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.	Chance	126
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.		201
I broke things to get attention.		202
I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.		203
There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.		204
I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.		205
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.		206
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.		207
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.		208
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.		209
One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.		210
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.		211
I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.		212
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.		213
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.		214
In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.		215
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.		216
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.		217
I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.		218
I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.		219
I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.		220
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?		221
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.		222
When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.		223
The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.		224
My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.		225
The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.		226
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.		301
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.		302
I hate wasting people's time.		303
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.		304
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.		305
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.		306
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.		307
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.		308
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.		309
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.		310
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.		311
I became conflicted in my late teens.		312
I'm woefully one-track-minded.		313
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.		314
I hate the domestic life.		315
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.		316
Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.		317
I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.		318
A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.		319
Actors should never give interviews.		320
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.		321
I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.		322
Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.		323
I love what I do.		324
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.		325
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.		326
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!		401
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.		402
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.		403
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.		404
I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.		405
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.		406
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.		407
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.		408
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.		409
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.		410
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.		411
I've been very lucky.		412
God knows, I haven't always been successful.		413
There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.		414
Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.		415
I've got a serious-looking head.		416
I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.		417
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.		418
I don't torture myself.		419
It must be hard interviewing actors.		420
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.		421
I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.		422
I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.		423
I like to learn about things.		424

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