Latest Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes from Interviews

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• I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Hero, Role Models, Worship

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Film, Terrible, Attraction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I would like to have children while I've still got the energy. But then I have the feeling that when I have children I'll stop performing in the same way, because you don't really need to perform if you have children.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Children, Feelings, Energy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Giving, Complaining, Pleasure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Untruth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Good Enough, Enough, Indulgence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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!

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Lying, Eight, Rehearsal

  "The Daniel Day-Lewis Nine Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 17, 2009.

• I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into middle age! - you come to a time where you really question more and more frequently, whether you have anything else to offer. And at its worst, you feel utterly bereft of whatever creative force it takes to do that work.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Creative, Age, Doe

  "The Daniel Day-Lewis Nine Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 17, 2009.

• The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Moving, Government, One Day At A Time

  "Steven Spielberd & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, Lincoln". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 30, 2018.