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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
Everybody
Capable
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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 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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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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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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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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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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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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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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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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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 was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
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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'm not actually a big musical fan.
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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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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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England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
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I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
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