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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
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Film Actor
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London
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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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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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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.
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I like to cook things very slowly.
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I like to learn about things.
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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 spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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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 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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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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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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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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When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.
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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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