Top 100 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

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

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

I don't torture myself.

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.

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