Daniel Day-Lewis quotes
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“You can sew almost anything into the canvas of a coat.”
- From the movie: Phantom Thread
“It's comforting to think the dead are watching over the living. I don't find that spooky at all.”
- From the movie: There Will Be Blood
“-Eli Sunday: We have a sinner with us here who wishes for salvation. Daniel, are you a sinner?
- Plainview: Yes. What do you want me to say?
- Eli Sunday: Oh, Daniel, you've come here and you've brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. You've lusted after women, and you have abandoned your child - your...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Crucible
“I may think of you softly from time to time, but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again. We never touched.”
- From the movie: A Room With A View
“What is it about Italy that makes lady novelists reach such summits of absurdity?”
- From the movie: Lincoln
- From the movie: There Will Be Blood
“Even if you find one that has money and means to drill, he'll maybe know nothing about drilling and he'll have to hire the job out on contract, and then you're depending on a contractor who'll rush the job through so he can get another contract just as quick as he can. This is... the way that this works.”
- From the movie: Gangs of New York
“We hold in our hearts the memory of our fallen brothers whose blood stains the very streets we walk today. Also on this night we pay tribute to the leader of our enemies, an honorable man, who crossed over bravely, fighting for what he believed in. To defeat my enemy, I extinguish his life, and consume him as I consume these flames. In honor of...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: There Will Be Blood
“You've been building your hate for me piece by piece. I don't even know who you are because you have none of me in you. You're someone else's. This anger, your maliciousness, backwards dealings with me.”
- From the movie: Gangs of New York
“Ears and noses will be the trophies of the day. But no hand shall touch him.”
- From the movie: Lincoln
“Each of us has made it possible for the other to do terrible things.”
- From the movie: My Left Foot
“All is nothing, therefore nothing must end.”
- From the movie: Lincoln
“We've stepped out upon the world stage now. Now! With the fate of human dignity in our hands. Blood's been spilled to afford us this moment now!”
- From the movie: The Age of Innocence
“- Newland Archer: You gave me my first glimpse of a real life. Then you asked me to go on with the false one. No one can endure that.
- Ellen Olenska: I'm enduring it.” - From the movie: There Will Be Blood
“- Plainview: One night, I'm gonna come to you, inside of your house, wherever you're sleeping, and I'm gonna cut your throat.
- H.M. Tilford: Why did you say it?
- Plainview: You don't tell me about my son.
- H.M. Tilford: I'm asking you to be reasonable. If I've offended you, I apologize.
- Plainview: You'll see what I can do.” - From the movie: There Will Be Blood
“- Eli Sunday: I've sinned! I need help! I'm a sinner! I've let the Devil grab hold of me in ways I never imagined! I'm so full of sin.
- Plainview: The Lord sometimes challenges us, doesn't he?” - From the movie: Lincoln
“Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?”
- From the movie: In the Name of the Father
“- Giuseppe Conlon: I'm going to die.
- Gerry Conlon: Don't be saying that.
- Giuseppe Conlon: I'm scared.
- Gerry Conlon: There's no reason to be scared. You have nothing to be scared about.
- Giuseppe Conlon: Don't you be comforting me when I can see the truth staring me in the face. I'm scared I'm gonna die here.” - From the movie: Gangs of New York
“At my challenge, by the ancient laws of combat, we are met at this chosen ground, to settle for good and all who holds sway over the five points: us natives, born rightwise to this fine land, or the foreign hordes defiling it.”
- From the movie: The Last of the Mohicans
“In case your aim's any better than your judgment.”
- From the movie: Lincoln
- From the movie: There Will Be Blood
“- William Bandy: I know that you would like to build a pipeline through my property. Is that right, what I've heard?
- Plainview: It's absolutely right.
- William Bandy: God has told me what you must do. I'd like you to be part of our church.
- Plainview: I'll pay you five thousand dollars.
- William Bandy: Be baptized, be forgiven for the sin...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Crucible
“We will not meet again, Abigail, in this World or the next.”
- From the movie: There Will Be Blood
“Mr. Bankside, I'm not going to waste your time; I'd certainly appreciate it if you didn't waste mine.”
- From the movie: Lincoln
"Appropriate? George Washington's likeness in a water closet?" "Yes", said Mr. Allen, "where it will do good service. The world knows nothing will make an Englishman shit quicker than the sight of George Washington.".
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