Daniel Day-Lewis movie quotes

“Con... Con... Con... gra... tu... la... tions, Peter and Eileen on the won... wonderful news. I'm glad you taught me how to speak so I could say that, Eileen.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Christy Brown

“- Tereza: Tomas, what are you thinking?
- Tomas: I'm thinking how happy I am.”
Juliette Binoche - Tereza
Daniel Day-Lewis - Tomas

“- Ellen Olenska: I knew you'd come.
- Newland Archer: That shows you wanted me to.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Ellen Olenska
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“I have no profession. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that as long as I am no trouble to anyone, I have the right to do as I like. It is, I dare say, an example of my decadence.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Cecil Vyse

“- Cecil Vyse: You don't love me, evidently. I dare say you're right not to, but... it would help a little, hurt a little less, if I knew why.
- Lucy Honeychurch: Because you're the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Cecil Vyse
Helena Bonham Carter - Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge

“- Ellen Olenska: I think we should look at reality, not dreams.
- Newland Archer: I just want us to be together!
- Ellen Olenska: I can't be your wife, Newland! Is it your idea that I should live with you as your mistress?
- Newland Archer: I want... Somehow, I want to get away with you... and... and find a world where words like that don't exist!”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Ellen Olenska
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“- Ted Archer: I'll be back on the first, and our wedding's not till the fifth.
- Newland Archer: I'm surprised you even remembered the date.”

Robert Sean Leonard - Ted Archer
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: You. Whatever your name is... what is your name?
- Amsterdam Vallon: Amsterdam, sir.
- Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting: Amsterdam... I'm New York... don't you never come in here empty handed again, you gotta pay for the pleasure of my company.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting
Leonardo DiCaprio - Amsterdam Vallon

“- Ellen Olenska: Are you very much in love with her?
- Newland Archer: As much as a man can be.
- Ellen Olenska: Do you think there's a limit?”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Ellen Olenska
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“- Newland Archer: Isn't that why you always admire Julius Beaufort? He was more honest than the rest of us, wasn't he, we've got no character, no color, no variety. I wonder why you just don't go back to Europe.
- Ellen Olenska: I believe that's because of you.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer
Michelle Pfeiffer - Ellen Olenska

“- May Welland: What are you reading?
- Newland Archer: Oh, it's a book about Japan.
- May Welland: Why?
- Newland Archer: I don't know. Because, it's a different country.
- May Welland: You used to read poetry. It was so nice when you read it to me.”
Winona Ryder - May Welland
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“- Christy Brown: I need a light
- Mary: What?
- Christy Brown: I need a light.
- Mary: I don't smoke.
- Christy Brown: I need a light.
- Mary: I'm not deaf, I can hear you. I haven't got any matches, so you'll just have to wait here while I go and get one... Don't think I'm your mother just because I'm looking after you for the evening.
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Daniel Day-Lewis - Christy Brown
Ruth McCabe - Mary

“You bring down heaven and raise up a whore!”
Daniel Day-Lewis - John Proctor

- British Officer: You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the Crown?
- Hawkeye: I do not call myself “subject” to much at all.
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them you have hanged! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

Daniel Day-Lewis - John Proctor

“I'm an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn't do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn't do. And this government still says he's guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are...” (continue)(continue reading)
Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon

“A real native is someone who is willing to die fighting for his country. There's nothing more to it.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting

“You see, Sir, between the two of us, we do know them all.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - John Proctor

“Who has the right to make her life over, if she hasn't? Why should we bury a woman alive if her husband prefers to live with whores?”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“What I remember most about my childhood is holding your hand. My wee hand in your big hand, and the smell of tobacco. I remember, I could smell the tobacco in the palm of your hand. When I want to feel happy, I try to remember the smell of tobacco.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Gerry Conlon

“- Ellen Olenska: Is New York such a labyrinth? I thought it was all straight up and down like Fifth Avenue. All the cross streets numbered and big honest labels on everything.
- Newland Archer: Everything is labeled, but everybody is not.
- Ellen Olenska: Then I must count on you for warnings too.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Ellen Olenska
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

“Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - John Proctor

“- Ellen Olenska: Is fashion such a serious consideration?
- Newland Archer: Among those who have nothing more serious to consider.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Ellen Olenska
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

- Mrs. Archer: Beaufort is a vulgar man.
- Newland Archer: Nevertheless, no business nuisance escapes him. Most of New York trusts him with its affairs.
- Mrs. Archer: My grandfather, Newland, always used to say to mother, "don't let that fellow Beaufort be introduced to the girls".
Siân Phillips - Mrs. Archer
Daniel Day-Lewis - Newland Archer

- Hawkeye: Chingachgook, he warned me about people like you.
- Cora Munro: Oh, he did?
- Hawkeye: He said "Do not try to understand them".
- Cora Munro: What?
- Hawkeye: Yes, and, "do not try to make them understand you. That is because they are a breed apart and make no sense".
Daniel Day-Lewis - Hawkeye
Madeleine Stowe - Cora Munro