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
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing
Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.
I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.