Damian Lewis Quotes
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
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It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
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I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
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I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.
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My parents were incredibly inclusive.
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You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
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Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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My heroes were all in the theatre.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
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I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I, on the other hand, spent eight months with my face squashed up against someone else’s backside in one sodden trench after another. And it looks as if Tom might have got the girl again [in Colditz], damn his eyes.
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Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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