A biography for Daniel Day-Lewishasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.”
“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 had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.”
“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.”
“When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.”
“My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.”
“I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.”
“When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.”
“If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.”
“I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.”
“I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.”
“I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.”
“If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.”
“I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.”
“I like to cook things very slowly.”
“I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.”
“I don't torture myself.”