Damian Lewis Quotes
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
-
You have to be yourself.
-
We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
-
The stratosphere is a hostile place.
-
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
-
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
-
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
-
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
-
We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
-
I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
-
You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
-
People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
-
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
-
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
-
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
-
I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
-
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
-
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
-
If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
-
The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.
-
Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if you develop a sense of compassion. You'll have that connectedness, that knowing that the same life that's in you is in every other being, so you're not going to mishandle life.
-
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
-
When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
-
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
