Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

People don't know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.

I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

It's a very sweet and often problematic situation where people feel like they know me and they're concerned for me. It creates these strange little intimate moments.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.

People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

I never read anything that's written about me.

I'm pretty private as a person - people generally think they know more about me than they do, because I gregariously advertise what I want known. So it pains me to think people might feel they have an insight into my personal matters, which they most certainly do not.

I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me.

I like to keep my personal life private. I did read one of those stories, and it made it seem like just because I don't go out and I'm not the subject of tabloid photography, I've never had a relationship in my life, like if a relationship isn't documented by a picture, it doesn't exist. I don't want to talk about it.

All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.

I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.

I never really endeavored to hide anything. But there were times I chose not to relegate my history to the back page of a magazine, which to me is sort of akin to putting your biography on a bathroom wall.

I got into a habit really early about not talking about work, ever.

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.