Top 100 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!

I broke things to get attention.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

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

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

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

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