Damian Lewis Quotes
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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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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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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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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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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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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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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 just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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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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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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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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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I love playing sport.
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I'm a slow starter.
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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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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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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.'
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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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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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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.