Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.

Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.

Doing the same thing over and over again can be boring, I want to explore as much as I can.

I'm drawn to opportunities that are going to challenge me and cause me to look outside of my own experiences.

As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years ago, I might have wanted to go out and help open up the West.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

I just want pieces of the world.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

I'm an explorer.

I like adventure.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.