Famous Quotes

"I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation."

Daniel Day-Lewis on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

• "At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."

• "Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies."

• "When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it."

• "At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve."

• "I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime."