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One Of The Great Pleasures Of Going To See A Daniel Day-lewis Film: You Haven’t Seen Him In Five Years. Where Have You Been? So, It’s A Special Event, Right? Well, If You Want To Go See A Movie That I’m In, It Still May Be A Special Event For You, But, You Don’t Feel Like You Don’t Know Where I’ve Been.

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One Of The Great Pleasures Of Going To See A Daniel Day-lewis Film: You Haven’t Seen Him In Five Years. Where Have You Been? So, It’s A Special Event, Right? Well, If You Want To Go See A Movie That I’m In, It Still May Be A Special Event For You, But, You Don’t Feel Like You Don’t Know Where I’ve Been.

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There's Two Sorts Of Fear: One You Embrace And One You Should Listen To And Turn The Other Way.

I Always Wanted To Be A Father And Thought It Would Be Great, But It Just Took The Right Woman And The Right Time To Make It All Happen.

I've Done Films Where We Don't Rehearse And I've Done Films Where We Heavily Rehearse. I Like Rehearsals.

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