Daniel Day Lewis Quotes
"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."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Life, Determination, Trouble, Years)
"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
(Related: Experience, Martin)
"I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Being, Film, World)
"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
(Related: People, Chance, Interest)
"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Film)
"Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Work, Years)
"I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Actors)
"The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Time)
"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
(Related: Business, Work, Bed, Delusion, May, Sense)
"There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment."
- Daniel Day Lewis
"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."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Work, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Life, Reason)
"My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Curiosity)
"How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Life, People, Detail)
"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."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Time)
"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
(Related: Time, Being, Burden, Film, First, Innocence)
"Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of."
- 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
(Related: People, Impression, Quiet)
"I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Work, Past)
"I find it easier to work when it's quiet."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Work, Quiet)
"I hate wasting people's time."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Time, People, Hate)
"I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: Film)
"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
(Related: Love, Movies, Work)
"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
(Related: Self)
"I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people."
- Daniel Day Lewis
(Related: People)
"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
(Related: Age, Work)