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
Daniel Day-Lewis quotes about
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
I don't torture myself.
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
I became conflicted in my late teens.
You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.