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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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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. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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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

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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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