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A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

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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
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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
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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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It must be hard interviewing actors.
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I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
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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 broke things to get attention.
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I like to learn about things.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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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 feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
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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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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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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
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I like to cook things very slowly.
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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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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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