Daniel Day-Lewis

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

“When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.”

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

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

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

“I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.”

“One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.”

“Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.”

“I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.”

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

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

“I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.”

“It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.”