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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

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Daniel Day-Lewis
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 29
Actor
Artist
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
London
England
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
Character
Reflection
Deep
Personal
Voice

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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.
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I hate the domestic life.
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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.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished
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I broke things to get attention.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing
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I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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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.
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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 sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
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