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
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
I like to cook things very slowly.
I'm not actually a big musical fan.
It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.
I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.
My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.
I've got a serious-looking head.
I've been very lucky.
I'm woefully one-track-minded.