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Daniel Day-Lewis
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 29
Actor
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Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
London
England
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis
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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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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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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 not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
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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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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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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 have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
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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 a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
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It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.
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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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My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.
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I like to cook things very slowly.
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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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'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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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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