"It must be hard interviewing actors."
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Daniel Day-Lewis quotes (page 6 of 6)
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"You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin."
"I would like to have children while I've still got the energy. But then I have the feeling that when I have children I'll stop performing in the same way, because you don't really need to perform if you have children."
"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."
"I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories."
"I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father..."
"It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln."
"I'm not actually a big musical fan."
"Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German."
"God knows, I haven't always been successful."
"I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was."
"I broke things to get attention."
"Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from."
"I like to cook things very slowly."
"I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride."
"I became conflicted in my late teens."
"I like to learn about things."
"I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all."
"I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do."
"It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name."