Top 100 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.