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Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years.

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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.

Mean, Piece, Taken, Towards, Writing

I've been very lucky.

Lucky

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.

Excuse, Father, Make, Sadness, Source

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

Easy, Far Away, Humanity, Love

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

Miracle, Parenthood, Think, Thinking, Thinks

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

Actors, Display, Misapprehension, Needs, People

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

Be Grateful, Grateful

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

Dublin, Hell, Makings, Oscars, Provided, Weekend

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

Character, Decision, Made, Playing, Practical

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

Intrigued, Lives, Experienced

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.

Hermit, Might, People, Place, Though, Way

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

Enough, Good, Good Enough, Indulgence

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

Actually, Big, Bigs, Fans, Musical

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

Actors, Pace, Think, Thinking, Thrive

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

Curiosity, Period, Periods, Shoot, Sustains

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

Absurdity, Perhaps, Serious, Unaware

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

Film, Leaving, Sadness, See, Soul, Surreal

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Design, Lucky, Way

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

Analysis, Culture, Placed, Scrutiny, Stuff, Thinking

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

Alive, Film, Long, Other Worlds

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