Top 100 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

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 it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

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 don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I broke things to get attention.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

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.