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Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

«You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.»
«I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.»
«I've only been reminded in the last few days constantly that I've let five years pass. I'm not being deliberately obtuse about it, but I wasn't aware of that time passing. I was quite happily engaged in other things. I set out to indulge my curiosity in other things, not just to get away from this work.»
«The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.»
«Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence -- the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.»
«Gangs of New York,»