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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.

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
Television Actor
London
England
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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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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The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.
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Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.
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I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.
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I like to learn about things.
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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 still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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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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You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
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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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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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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 feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.
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