Damian Lewis Quotes

• I love playing sport.

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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 want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they’ve been on reality TV or something.

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  Tags in Distinction, Seriously

• 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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  Tags in Degree, Talent

• I’d feel guilty just doing gags.

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• My heroes were all in the theatre.

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• You can’t do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, ‘It wasn’t my film, I was just doing a job in it.’

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• 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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• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

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• Dramatically it’s always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

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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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• 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 don’t mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

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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 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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• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

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• A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn’t breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

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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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• I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

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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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  Tags in England, Getting

Damian Lewis (60)

Birth:	11th February, 1971
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Producer

About

Damian Watcyn Lewis was born in St. John's Wood, London, England. He is an English actor and producer. He is best known for portraying U.S. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, Soames Forsyte in the ITV remake of The Forsyte Saga, Detective Charlie Crews in the NBC drama Life, and U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, after which he served as a stage actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Lewis was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to drama.

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