Quotes by

Daniel Day-Lewis

Its 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

I think I have a strange relationship with time. Im not really aware of that time passing. I dont feel that Im wasteful with time. But Im not aware of it passing. – Daniel Day-Lewis

I have a strange relationship with time. Im not aware of it passing. – Daniel Day-Lewis

Id always felt very strongly in the power of vocation. – Daniel Day-Lewis

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and thats never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies. – Daniel Day-Lewis

Im not keen on history being tampered with… to any extent. – Daniel Day-Lewis

At some point in your life, if youre lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. – Daniel Day-Lewis

When Ive gone back to work, its always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but its the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I cant avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. – Daniel Day-Lewis

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that. – 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 is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name. – 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

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