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 still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
I hate the domestic life.
I don't torture myself.
I became conflicted in my late teens.
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
I broke things to get attention.
It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.
Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.