Daniel Day-Lewis

Categories: Entertainment | Film Actors

  • Daniel Day-Lewis is an award-winning British actor best known for his roles as Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans and as Bill the Butcher in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York. He is a method actor, known for his complete immersion into his roles through research and staying in character For the duration of his films.

    In 2008 the Best Actor Oscar was given to him for his role in There Will Be Blood.

  • Notable Films

    1. 1988: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    2. 1989: My Left Foot
    3. 1992: The last of the Mohicans
    4. 1993: The Age of Innocence
    5. 1993: In the Name of the Father
    6. 1996: The Crucible
    7. 2002: Gangs of New York
    8. 2007: There Will Be Blood

  • Quotes

    1. "I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe I'm somebody else."
    2. "Life comes first. What I see in the characters, I first try to see in life."
    3. "Laurence Olivier might have been a much better actor on film if he hadn't had that flippant attitude. [He] was a remarkable actor, but he was entirely missing the point consistently. He felt that film was an inferior form."
    4. "Why would I want to play middle-aged middle-class Englishmen?"

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