#y

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#me #period #shoot #sustains

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#day #front #preference #someone #sticks

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

#dichotomy #english #front #gone #great

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#because #doing #i #particularly #perhaps

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #away #i #over #periodically

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. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#more #off #shoes #situation #strange

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#foot #i #last #last time #left

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#am #appear #bearing #been #being

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

#always #been #before #behind #catching

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #any #character #decisions #made