Quotes from Daniel Day-Lewis movies and TV shows - page 2 of 3

Cora Munro: Why were those people living in this defenseless place?
Hawkeye: After seven years indentured service in Virginia, they headed out here 'cause the frontier's the only land available to poor people. Out here, they're beholden to none. Not living by another's leave.

Hawkeye: I am Le Longue Carabine! My death is a great honor to the Huron, take me.

British Officer: You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject to the Crown?
Hawkeye: I do not call myself subject to much at all.

Hawkeye: Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.

Hawkeye: No! You stay alive! If they don't kill you, they'll take you north up to the Huron lands. Submit, do you hear? You're strong! You survive! You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you! No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you.

Hawkeye: It was a war party. That means they're going to be attacking up and down the frontier.

Maj. Duncan Heyward: I thought all our colonial scouts were in the militia. The militia is fighting the French in the north.
Hawkeye: I ain't your scout. And we sure ain't no damn militia.

Cora Munro: What are you looking at, sir?
Hawkeye: I'm looking at you, miss.

Duncan: There is a war on. How is it you are headed west?
Hawkeye: Well, we kinda face to the north and real sudden-like turn left.

Cora Munro: They're going to hang you. Why didn't you leave when you had the chance?
Hawkeye: Because what I'm interested in is right here.

Hawkeye: I'm Nathaniel of the Yengeese. Hawkeye, adopted son of Chingachgook of the Mohican people. Let the children of the dead Munro and the Yengeese officer go free. This belt which is the record of the days of my father's people speaks for my truth.

Abraham Lincoln: I could write shorter sermons, but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop.

Abraham Lincoln: I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes!

Abraham Lincoln: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln: Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

Christy Brown: I've had nothing but Platonic love all me life. Do you know what I say? fuck plato! And fuck all love that's not a hundred percent commitment.

Christy Brown: Fuck off.
Dr. Eileen Cole: With speech therapy, I could teach you how to say "fuck off" more.

Christy Brown: I need a light.
Mary: What?
Christy Brown: I need a light.
Mary: I don't smoke.
Christy Brown: I need a light.
Mary: I'm not deaf, I can hear you. I haven't got any matches, so you'll just have to wait here while I go and get one... Don't think I'm your mother just because I'm looking after you for the evening.
Christy Brown: I don't need a fucking psychology lesson, I just need a fucking light.

Stephanie: What would you say the limit to what you could show in movies these days is?
Guido Contini: What would you like to see that I haven't already shown you?

Luisa Contini: Thank you.
Guido Contini: What for?
Luisa Contini: Thank you for reminding me I'm not special. You don't even see what you do to me. Even the moments I think are ours, it's just... you working to get what you want.