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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

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Daniel Day-Lewis
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 29
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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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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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