Top 100 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

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.

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

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

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

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

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