Daniel Day-Lewis
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“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.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“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.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“I’d always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“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.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“I’m not keen on history being tampered with… to any extent.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“At some point in your life, if you’re lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“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.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. – Daniel Day-Lewis
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do. – Daniel Day-Lewis
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