Damian Lewis Quotes - Page 2

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• You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

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  Independent, Class, Ideas

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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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  Men, People, Assuming

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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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  Play, Two, Roles

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• I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

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  Morning, Home, Years

  "Damian Lewis Interview HOMELAND". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I love playing sport.

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  Sports, Playing Sports

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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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  Eye, People, Lucky

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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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  Mean, Intention, Bigs

  "Damian Lewis Interview HOMELAND". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 1, 2011.

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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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  Quiet People, Fun, Emotional

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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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  People, Important, Different

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• You have to go where the good writing is.

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  Writing, Good Writing

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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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  Work Ethic, Intellectual, Roles

  "Homeland: Damian Lewis adopts the patriot act". Interview with David Stubbs, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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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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  People, Giving, Acting

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• My parents were incredibly inclusive.

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  Parent

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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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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  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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

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  Succeed, Conversation, Shows

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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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  Running, Men, Views

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

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  Interesting

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• I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

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  Done, Theater

  "Actor Damian Lewis". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 4, 2012.

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• I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.

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  Years, Two, Decision

  "'Homeland' Damian Lewis, David Harewood Q&A". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. February 13, 2012.

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