I donโt like to rehearse. And I couldnโt understand how you could go through eight weeks of rehearsal, without exhausting every possibility. To the point where, you know, you would just lie gasping on the floor!
Daniel Day-LewisI don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.
Daniel Day-LewisMy preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
Daniel Day-LewisAs actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
Daniel Day-Lewis