Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewisis an English actor. He holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years. Despite his traditional actor training at the Bristol Old Vic, he is considered to be a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. He often remains completely in character...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth29 April 1957
CityGreenwich, England
I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.
I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
I hate wasting people's time.
I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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.
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.
Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.
A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.