Daniel Day-Lewis movie quotes

“- George Emerson: My father says there is only one perfect view, and that's the view of the sky over our heads.
- Cecil Vyse: I expect your father has been reading Dante.”
Julian Sands - George Emerson
Daniel Day-Lewis - Cecil Vyse

“I don't give a tuppenny fuck about your moral conundrum, you meat-headed shit-sack. That's more or less the thing. And I want you to go out there... You, nobody else. None of your little minions. I want you to go out there. And I want you to punish the person who's responsible for murdering this poor little rabbit. Is that understood?”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting

“- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: Is this it Priest, the Pope's new army, a few crusty bitches and a hand full of rag tags?
- 'Priest' Vallon: Now, now, Bill, you swore this was a battle between warriors, not a bunch of miss nancies, so warriors is what I brought.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting
Liam Neeson - 'Priest' Vallon

“- Gang Member: Why are you working for these people? Pakis.
- Johnny: It's work, that's why.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Johnny

“- Jack Winthrop: You're not coming with us?
- Hawkeye: I've got a reason to stay.
- Jack Winthrop: That reason wear a striped skirt and work in the surgery?
- Hawkeye: It does. No offense, but it's a better looking reason than you, Jack Winthrop.”
Edward Blatchford - Jack Winthrop
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye

“- William 'Boss' Tweed: You're turning your back on the future.
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: Not our future.”
Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting

“- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: How old are you, Amsterdam?
- Amsterdam Vallon: I'm not sure, sir. I never did quite figure it.
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: I'm forty-seven. Forty-seven years old. You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends...” (continue)(continue reading)
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting
Leonardo DiCaprio - Amsterdam Vallon

“I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“I use the law allowing for the seizure of property in a war knowing it applies only to the property of governments and citizens of belligerent nations. But the South ain't a nation, that's why I can't negotiate with'em.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“Abolishing slavery by constitutional provisions settles the fate for all coming time. Not only of the millions now in bondage, but of unborn millions to come.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“Everything you see belongs to me, to one degree or another. The beggars and newsboys and quick thieves here in Paradise, the sailor dives and gin mills and blind tigers on the waterfront, the anglers and amusers, the she-hes and the Chinks. Everybody owes, everybody pays. Because that's how you stand up against the rising of the tide.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting

“I can't accomplish a goddamn thing of any worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pestilential war!”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“Euclid's first common notion is this: Things which are equal to the same things are equal to each other. That's a rule of mathematical reasoning and its true because it works.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“You see this knife? I'm gonna teach you to speak English with this fucking knife!”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting

“- H.M. Tilford: We'll make you a millionaire while you're sitting here from one minute to the next.
- Plainview: What else would I do with myself?
- H.M. Tilford: Take care of your son. I don't know what you would do.”
David Warshofsky - H.M. Tilford
Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Plainview

“- John Proctor: She is a whore!
- Judge Thomas Danforth: This will not pass. Can you prove this?
- John Proctor: I have known her sir! I have known her.
- Judge Thomas Danforth: In what time? What place?
- John Proctor: In the proper place where my beasts are bedded.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - John Proctor
Paul Scofield - Judge Thomas Danforth

“- Cora Munro: What are you looking at, sir?
- Hawkeye: I'm looking at you, miss.”
Madeleine Stowe - Cora Munro
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye

“Civilization is crumbling.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting

“You can sleep. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Tomas

“- Plainview: These men are working twelve hour shifts and they need their rest. If they don't have it, they start to make stupid mistakes...
- Eli Sunday: I've seen some of the men drinking. Don't you think that has something to do with it...
- Plainview: We need these men well rested to bring in this well. They can't get that if they're up here...” (continue)(continue reading)
Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Plainview
Paul Dano - Eli Sunday

“- Sabina: Don't you ever spend the night at the woman's place?
- Tomas: Never!”
Lena Olin - Sabina
Daniel Day-Lewis - Tomas

“- Christy Brown: What'll we drink to?
- Mary: Let's drink to Dublin.
- Christy Brown: To Dublin? Why?
- Mary: Because Christy Brown was born there.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Christy Brown
Ruth McCabe - Mary

“It is not on a boat we'll meet again Abigail, but in hell.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - John Proctor

“My father's people say that at the birth of the sun and of his brother the moon, their mother died. So the sun gave to the earth her body, from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars, and the stars he threw into the night sky to remind him of her soul.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye

“- Happy Jack Mulraney: I'm paid to uphold the law.
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: What in Heaven's name are you talking about?”
John C. Reilly - Happy Jack Mulraney
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting