186 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

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

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

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 depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.