Damian Lewis Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.”
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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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“People need revelation, and then they need resolution.”
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“The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation,”
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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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“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'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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“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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“I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.”
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“Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.”
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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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“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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“No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.”
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“There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And theres a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you dont need to do so.”
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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 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 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 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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“You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.”
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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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“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 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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“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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