Damian Lewis Quotes
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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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.
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You have to be yourself.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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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.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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.
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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.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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I think the performances that really communicate with me are the ones where I don't feel like I'm watching someone and thinking: "They're doing some really good acting." It's when I'm literally completely consumed by the story-telling and the actor or actress is evoking something in me. I think that's so powerful and cinema and TV has so much power.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
