Daniel Day-Lewis People Quotations

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

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.

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.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

I hate wasting people's time.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.