Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.”

“I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.”

“There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.”

“How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?”

“I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.”

“If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.”

“When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.”