186 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

Germans don’t speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

I’m very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

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!

It’s easy to love humanity when you’re this far away from it.

As actors, we’re all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, ‘Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.’

Periodically over the years I’ve always taken periods of time away from acting.

I hate wasting people’s time.

I suppose it’s a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I’m a performer.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I’m continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.