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" I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was. "
Daniel Day-Lewis
Life
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Early
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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" I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father. "
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" I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people. "
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" Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. "
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" Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable. "
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" As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.' "
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" Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of. "
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" At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. "
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" A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character. "
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" If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. "
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" I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles. "
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" 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. "
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You
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" The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot. "
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Foot
Last
" I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching. "
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My Life
Live
" You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another. "
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Reason
" 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. "
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Situation
Finding
" 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. "
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" If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it. "
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You
" Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that. "
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" 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
Working
Wish
" 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. "
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" To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue. "
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