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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.
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I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results.
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I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.
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One thing I know about being in a three-way friendship is that you'd better not let the other two spend too much time without you, or it turns into a two-way friendship, minus you.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
