Explore Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

I've got a serious-looking head.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

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

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

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

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.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

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.

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

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.

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.

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

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

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

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.