Top 100 Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

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

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

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 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.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

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

I hate wasting people's time.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.