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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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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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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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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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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I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.
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Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
