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

Daniel Day-Lewis

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Daniel Day-Lewis
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 29
Actor
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
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London
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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.
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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 like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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I like to cook things very slowly.
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I broke things to get attention.
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It must be hard interviewing actors.
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I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
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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 would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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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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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'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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