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
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that. – 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
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
Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, Another romantic comedy? You see her in something like Walk the Line and think, God, youre so great! And then you think, Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies? But of course, its for money and status. – Gwyneth Paltrow