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• You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

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• You just have to take control of your own performance.

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• You have to go where the good writing is.

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• You can’t be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

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• Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I’m just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

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• Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It’s very easy when you’re a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what’s shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it’s important to find something constant.

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• When I’m working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show’s creators think, ‘Oh my god, he’s so English, why did we hire him?’

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• What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

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• There’s 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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• There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there’s a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don’t need to do so.

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• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

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• The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

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• The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

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• Quiet people, people who aren’t given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words – they’re 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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• Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

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• No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

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• My parents were incredibly inclusive

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• L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

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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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• 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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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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