I'm not picky, quite honestly.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

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

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

I hate the domestic life.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

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've got a serious-looking head.

I hate wasting people's time.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

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

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

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

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

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