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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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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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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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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 like to learn about things.
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To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
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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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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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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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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 broke things to get attention.
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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 hate the domestic life.
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You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
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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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How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
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I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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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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Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.
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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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