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
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
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
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul. – Alexander Smith, “An Essay on an Old Subject”