I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious. Daniel Day-Lewis More Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis More Quotes From Daniel Day-Lewis It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it. Daniel Day-Lewis far-away humanity easy I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. Daniel Day-Lewis failing essentials ideas It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. Daniel Day-Lewis excuse sadness father The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. Daniel Day-Lewis horizon west way I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. Daniel Day-Lewis custodians parent country I hate wasting people's time. Daniel Day-Lewis i-hate hate people I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship. Daniel Day-Lewis role-models worship hero Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. Daniel Day-Lewis american-movie heresy wanted Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation. Daniel Day-Lewis innocence film firsts I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced. Daniel Day-Lewis intrigued If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. Daniel Day-Lewis cabinets makers spirit I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past. Daniel Day-Lewis compelled feels past In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it. Daniel Day-Lewis creativity fields creative 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. Daniel Day-Lewis resurgence film want I've got a serious-looking head. Daniel Day-Lewis serious 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. Daniel Day-Lewis orbit stories world At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do. Daniel Day-Lewis aging age birthday I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already. Daniel Day-Lewis deals faces stuff I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime. Daniel Day-Lewis colleagues lifetime wish There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that. Daniel Day-Lewis finding-yourself allies knowing
