Daniel Day-Lewis

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. ”

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out. ”

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father. ”

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

I hate wasting people's time. ”

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

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. ”

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing. ”

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. ”

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation. ”