Daniel Day-Lewis

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 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.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

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.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

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

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

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

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.