Top 100 Quotes About Daniel Day Lewis
#1. I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.
Deborah Kara Unger
#2. I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.
David Oyelowo
#3. I love my films. I have stacks and stacks of DVDs. I put 'Last of the Mohicans' on the other day with Daniel Day-Lewis. It hurts me to say it because he's a Millwall fan, but I think he's fantastic.
Alvin Martin
#4. You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style.
Emma Donoghue
#5. Stepping into the "shoes" of someone's life other than my own, great movies such as Cinema Paradiso, scenic landscapes, the work of Daniel Day-Lewis, the books of Joel Goldsmith, traveling, doughnuts, ice cream.
Reggie Lee
#6. You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.
Janet Montgomery
#7. There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
Derek Magyar
#8. Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
Julia Roberts
#9. The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.
Lucy Punch
#10. Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.
Channing Tatum
#11. Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
Les Claypool
#12. Daniel Day-Lewis would play me as a baby. He can do anything. Johnny Depp or Brad Pitt are fighting out for me now. And Meryl Streep will play me after the sex change. I haven't told you about that, have I?
Ricky Gervais
#13. I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in 'My Left Foot,' and my parents were discussing the fact that he's an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, 'Someone is pretending to do that? That's so awesome!' After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.
Dominique McElligott
#14. There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
Adam Driver
#15. 'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor.
Steve Erickson
#16. Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#17. I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#18. I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.
Lauren Bacall
#19. I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!
Aubrey Plaza
#20. Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis - huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
Owain Yeoman
#21. I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor ... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.
Joe Dempsie
#22. I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright.
Kevin Daniels
#23. Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.
Rich Sommer
#24. I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.
Laurence Fox
#25. Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.
Sean Bean
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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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#32. Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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#33. 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.
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#34. When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.
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#35. I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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#37. England 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.
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#38. 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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#40. You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
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#43. Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.
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#44. How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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#45. Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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#46. I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.
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#47. 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.
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#48. I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.
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#49. 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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#50. There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him.
Matthew Lewis
#51. The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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#54. If 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!
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#55. 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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#56. I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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#57. 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.
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#59. As 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 rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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#60. I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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#61. For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal ... has always been the work of other actors.
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#62. Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.
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#65. 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.
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#66. It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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#67. 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!
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#68. I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
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#69. 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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#70. Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.
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#71. 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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#72. 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.
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#73. 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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#76. I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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#77. I'm not keen on history being tampered with ... to any extent.
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#78. 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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#79. Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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#80. Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
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#83. At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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#84. Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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#85. I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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#86. I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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#87. It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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#89. There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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#90. If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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#91. 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.
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#92. I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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#93. 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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#94. The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.
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#95. We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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#96. It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.
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#97. 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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#98. I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
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#99. I 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 convey little emotion.
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#100. I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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