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My love for American movies was like a secret that I carried around with me. I always knew I could straddle different worlds. I`d grown up in two different worlds and if you can grow up in two different worlds, you can occupy four. Or six. Why put a limit on it?

- Daniel Day-Lewis

I have no illusion about the fact that I`m an Englishman living in Ireland. Even though I do straddle both worlds and I`m very proud to be able to carry both passports. But I do know where I come from. I particularly miss south-east London - the front-lines of Deptford and Lewisham and New Cross and Charlton - because that`s my patch.

- Daniel Day-Lewis