186 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

For about a year, I just didn’t know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

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.

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.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it’s because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

There’s nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you’re not a true ally to the person who’s in charge of all that.

You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film – you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.

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.

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There’s a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

As a member of the audience I don’t like it that I can’t see what’s going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I’m more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.