QUOTES by Daniel Day-Lewis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.
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To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
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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.'
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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.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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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.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
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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.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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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.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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