Damian Lewis Quotes
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
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My heroes were all in the theatre.
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You have to go where the good writing is.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
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My parents were incredibly inclusive.
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If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.
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This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.
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My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.
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Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
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I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
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I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.
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I'm not very good at strategizing.
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In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'
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You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.
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There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.