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
God knows, I haven't always been successful.
My main memories of my father are of his illness.
My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
I like to cook things very slowly.
I like to learn about things.
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.
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.
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.