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
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
I hate wasting people's time.
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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.
Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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 think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.