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 live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
Actors should never give interviews.
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
I don't like to rehearse. And I couldn't understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!