186 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

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!

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.