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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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Creating #Tudors #Rereading
“For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Creating #Stories #Rehearsal
“My heroes were all in the theatre.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Hero #Theatre #My Hero
“People need revelation, and then they need resolution.”
-- Damian Lewis

#People #Needs #Revelations
“The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation,”
-- Damian Lewis

#Succeed #Conversation #Shows
“I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl â€” 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 elseâ€™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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Girl #Brother #Eye
“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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Running #Men #Views
“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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Attitude #Hard Work #Play
“It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Scripts #Unfair #Stage
“In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Work Ethic #Intellectual #Roles
“I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Done #Theater
“Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Patience #Natural #Producers
“You have to go where the good writing is.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Writing #Good Writing
“You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Spiritual #Thinking
“Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.”
-- Damian Lewis

#People #Important #Different
“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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Quiet People #Fun #Emotional
“No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Government #Long #Foreign Policy
“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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#People #Giving #Acting
“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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Reality #People #Acting
“My parents were incredibly inclusive.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Parent
“I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Thinking #Interesting #Actors
“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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#School #Successful #Degrees
“I love playing sport.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Sports #Playing Sports
“I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Growing Up #Swim #Height
“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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Butterfly #Sleep #Night
“I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Thinking #People #Suspense
“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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Kids #Balls #Noses
“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.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Running #Latin #Party
“I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.”
-- Damian Lewis

#Jesus #Believe #Son
“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!'”
-- Damian Lewis

#Hair #Red #England

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