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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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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Daniel Day-Lewis
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 29
Actor
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Film Actor
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Television Actor
London
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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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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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I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
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