186 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

Everybody has to know for themselves what they’re capable of.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

You’ve just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you’re not acting, you’re doing monologues.

Perhaps I’m particularly serious, because I’m not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I’m doing.

I can’t honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

I’m a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that’s the most obvious.

It didn’t occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

Very often there’s this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.