Top 100 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.