Daniel Day-Lewis

“Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.”

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

“Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.”

“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 don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.”

“When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.”

“When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sens...”

“It must be hard interviewing actors.”

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

“I became conflicted in my late teens.”

“I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.”

“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.”

“I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.”

“I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.”

“I'm not picky, quite honestly.”

“I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.”

“How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?”

“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.”

“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.”