Daniel Day-Lewis Quotations | Page 2

Actors should never give interviews.

I've got a serious-looking head.

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

I don't like to rehearse. And I couldn't understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

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

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.