Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.

God, keep me from what they call 'households,'

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.

The only thing I've ever wanted in my life is to be a mom and a wife.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.

How does one get bored of life?

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

I know a lot of very rich, very successful, very lonely women in Los Angeles, and I never wanted to be one of them.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

I don't really leave the house. Literally, I train, come home, look after the kids, the dogs, my missus... then it's time to go to bed.

It's very claustrophobic to live a life which is not really how you wanted to live. You are forcing yourself to be quiet and behave like someone you are not.

Even after marriage, our home is important for us.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.