186 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

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

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.