Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewisis an English actor. He holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. Despite his traditional actor training at the Bristol Old Vic, he is considered to be a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. He often remains completely in character...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 April 1957
CityGreenwich, England
I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.
I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.
I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.
Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.
I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
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!