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Quotes by 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've only been reminded in the last few days constantly that I've let five years pass. I'm not being deliberately obtuse about it, but I wasn't aware of that time passing. I was quite happily engaged in other things. I set out to indulge my curiosity in other things, not just to get away from this work.
– Daniel Day Lewis
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
– 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
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
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.
– 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
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
– Daniel Day Lewis
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
– Daniel Day Lewis
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
– Daniel Day Lewis
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
– 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
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
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
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
– 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