There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. 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-awayhumanityeasy 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 failingessentialsideas 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 excusesadnessfather 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 horizonwestway 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 custodiansparentcountry I hate wasting people's time. Daniel Day-Lewis i-hatehatepeople I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship. Daniel Day-Lewis role-modelsworshiphero Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. Daniel Day-Lewis american-movieheresywanted 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 innocencefilmfirsts 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 cabinetsmakersspirit I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past. Daniel Day-Lewis compelledfeelspast 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 creativityfieldscreative 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 resurgencefilmwant 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 orbitstoriesworld 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 agingagebirthday I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already. Daniel Day-Lewis dealsfacesstuff 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 colleagueslifetimewish 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-yourselfalliesknowing
