Lennie James Quotes
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All the great shows owe a lot to 'Hill Street Blues.'
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I became politicised in my mid teens, at the time of ska and 2 Tone and the Anti-Nazi League, when I'd get dressed up for a night out in my white socks and loafers, and the last thing I'd hear is, 'Have a good night - be careful of the police.'
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I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.
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I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh.
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I'd really like to go Sydney. I've been to Australia a few times, but I have never been there.
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I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.
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If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.
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They shut down kids' homes, for a number of reasons, and I was part of that transition into foster care. That's all well and good if it's populated by people who feel their work is paid decently and supported.
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When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.
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We did four months on 'Line of Duty' from beginning to end, and that would be a long theater run.
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I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
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My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.
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The fact that I lost my mum was horrible, and if I could change anything, I would definitely change that.
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I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.
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The Internet links me to friends and family around the world. Skype rocks!
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When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.
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I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.
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The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.
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'The State Within' demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn't just wash over you - it asks for commitment. And that's a really good thing.
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The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.
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Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.
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I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.
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There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So when I do get a chance, I jump at it.
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I'm pretty much a London boy, and it was a big enough city to try and conquer.