Explore Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

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.

I like to cook things very slowly.

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!

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

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!

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

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.

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!

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

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.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

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.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.