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 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!
I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
I'm woefully one-track-minded.
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
I'm not picky, quite honestly.
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.