Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

It is done, and I will abide by it.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

It was a job, and I was just doing my job.

All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government ... neither to flap nor to falter.

First you have to do what you're supposed to do before you can do what you'd like to do.

My philosophy is that you do what you have to do.

I follow the roles.

I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I don't' want to do anything about it.

I've got a job to do.

When my number's called, I'll perform.

You do the job you have to do where you have to do it.

I have a job to do, so I'm gonna do it.

I'm kind of a grinder.