Daniel Day-Lewis

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. ”

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating. ”

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all. ”

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful. ”

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

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer. ”

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands. ”

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left. ”

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. ”

I'm not picky, quite honestly. ”