Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

I can't copy nature.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

I'm not a mimic.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.

I'm very easy to impersonate. From the look to the personality, I'm like, wow.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.

With success always comes mimicry.

Thing is - I'm easily imitated, never duplicated.

Adopting mannerisms is called mimicry. That is not a good way to do things. You don't start to imitate somebody, the way he walks and talks, that is a very irrelevant element of acting.

The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.