Daniel Day-LewisMaking a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing371Life
Daniel Day-LewisJust stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!362Life
Daniel Day-LewisI never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.351Humor
Daniel Day-LewisBeing at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation. ✨ City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1… ▶364Time
Daniel Day-LewisI don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.375Sadness
Daniel Day-LewisIt didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.343Life
Daniel Day-LewisI'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. ✨ Daniel Day-Lewis On Creating A Voice From The Past. All Things Considered w… ▶321ReflectionTime
Daniel Day-LewisShoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.376Time
Daniel Day-LewisI 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.343Life
Daniel Day-LewisI 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. ✨ Interview … ▶366Humanity
Daniel Day-LewisI am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that … ▶356Humanity
Daniel Day-LewisA voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.356Reflection
Daniel Day-LewisPerhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.301Humor
Daniel Day-LewisAs 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… ▶369ThoughtTime
Daniel Day-LewisI'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.3710Love
Daniel Day-LewisAt a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.281Truth
Daniel Day-LewisOne 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 ha… ▶271Time
Daniel Day-LewisYou can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.304Life
Daniel Day-LewisThe whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight. ✨ Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 23, 2005.282Sadness
Daniel Day-LewisA lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands. ✨ In the name of the father. Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.304Hope
Daniel Day-LewisAs 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 r… ▶305Death
Daniel Day-LewisMy 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. ✨ How Daniel Day-Lewis' notoriously rigorous r… ▶328Death
Daniel Day-LewisEngland 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. ✨ The New Frontier's Man by L… ▶262Time
Daniel Day-LewisI'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished241Life
Daniel Day-LewisI don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible. It's not necessarily because of the work itsel… ▶252Life
Daniel Day-LewisI hate wasting people's time.307HumanityTime
Daniel Day-LewisWhen 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. ✨ Age of experience. Int… ▶318Life
Daniel Day-LewisWhere I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.241Politics
Daniel Day-LewisIf you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!253Reading
Daniel Day-LewisI'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.242Humor
