Damian Lewis Quotes

I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

Damian Lewis

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• There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Always
  • Years
  • Without

• My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Day
  • Public

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Strong
  • Always
  • Body

• My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • May
  • Father

• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Forever
  • Economists

• The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Party
  • Values

• Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Dead

• If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Car
  • London
  • Bank

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Gift

• Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Always

• The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Fear
  • Prejudice
  • Advertising

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Present

• In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Love
  • Job
  • True

• The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Key
  • Script
  • Monkeying

• I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.

  

  Ander Crenshaw
  • Excellence

• The big, shoe-thumping fellow continues as a dark thunderhead to threaten all unrepentant non-Communists with hail and thunder.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Dark
  • Shoes
  • Communism

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script