186 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

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

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.