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My main memories of my father are of his illness.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I hate wasting people's time.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Daniel Day-Lewis

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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!

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I became conflicted in my late teens.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

Daniel Day-Lewis

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

Daniel Day-Lewis

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.

Daniel Day-Lewis

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

Daniel Day-Lewis

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

Daniel Day-Lewis

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis