Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done in my adult life that I didn’t know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always. As the years pass, I’m learning how to better trust my gut and not do the wrong thing, but every so often I get a harsh reminder that I’ve still got work to do.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

I haven't always made the right decisions.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I think, like anyone else, I made my mistakes.

I make mistakes, and sometimes in split seconds. Then seconds later I know how wrong I was.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

In Orlando, I handled a lot of stuff the wrong way.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'

I remember some of the biggest mistakes I have made really, really well.

I'm not a person who regrets - it doesn't make me smarter to regret something.

Basically, when I did 'Infinity' in 1997, I had thoughts in my head that left me with a lot of questions. I've gone to certain personal limits with 'Infinity' that, at the end of it, I think, scared me. And I've made a lot of really kinda bad mistakes as a result of that.

I listen to myself, listen to my heart.

I think we've all done things that are a detriment to ourselves, and we've all made good choices that have brought good things for us.

I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

The answer can't be found in books - or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you - feel the right thing to do. Charlie, you've got to learn to trust yourself

Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

You can't wait for people to tell you; you have to know yourself.

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.