Damian Lewis Quotes
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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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I love playing sport.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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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 an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
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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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There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.
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I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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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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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'