Daniel Day-Lewis quotes Oscar win for 'My Left Foot' (1989) Born: 04/29/1957 Country: united_kingdom

• At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [age]
• Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of. (Daniel Day-Lewis)
• Five years ago I just felt I wanted to do other things. Over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [time]
• How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [people/director/life/movie]
• I can't remember if anything specific happened that led me to this tiny piece of self-knowledge, or whether it just came to me. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [remember]
• I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [people]
• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [past]
• I find it easier to work when it's quiet. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [find]
• I hate wasting people's time. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [time]
• I just enjoy kidding myself, I suppose, for a period of time. I suppose that partly the reason why I do love this work. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [time/love]
• I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [film]
• 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. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [love/love]
• I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [problem]
• I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [people]
• I tend to respond to that bizarre compulsion, but it could easily lead me there as opposed to back onto a movie set. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [movie]
• 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. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [think/strange/time/time]
• I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [think/actors]
• I try to honor that bargain that I made with myself that I wouldn't do this work unless I really felt the need to. I just didn't see the point. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [point]
• 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. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [life]
• I was unruly. If I'd had to become a paid up member of any party at that time, it would've been the anarchists probably. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [time]
• I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [wish/experience]
• I'm not always doing this work, but whatever I'm doing when I'm not doing this work seems to be as much a part of this as anything else. (Daniel Day-Lewis)
• I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [being/film]
• If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [people/take/interest/think]
• It's a complete illusion, this notion. We create for ourselves this strange delusion that we exchange our lives for someone else's. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [strange/exchange]
• It's nice to be missed. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [nice]
• It's usually fairly clear, when you start to tell a story, what the demands are. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [start]
• Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [film/thing]
• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from. (Daniel Day-Lewis)
• My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [curiosity]
• My life doesn't feel separated, divided into two parts in the way that it apparently seems to most other people. (Daniel Day-Lewis) [life/people]

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