Daniel Day-Lewis

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. ”

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles. ”

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already. ”

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week. ”

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it. ”

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. ”

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. ”

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't? ”

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

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. ”