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Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis
English Actor
Born: Feb 11, 1971
Good Life Me People Think You
Related authors: Bill Nighy Charlie Chaplin John Cleese Michael Caine Robert Pattinson Tom Hardy Tom Hiddleston Tom Holland
Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting. Damian Lewis
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You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night. Damian Lewis
Day You Feeling Horrible Having Feel Like Know Stomach Anxious Your Even Butterflies Night Stressful Sleep
I'm one of those pesky Brits. Damian Lewis
Brits Those
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. Damian Lewis
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable. Damian Lewis
Man Trouble Action Run Risk Misplaced Like Look Lot American Being Interchangeable View Actor
There are lots of different reasons to choose roles. Damian Lewis
Lots Roles Different Choose Different Reasons Reasons
If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker. Damian Lewis
You Become Drama Boring Only
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things. Damian Lewis
Dramatically Rather More Conceal Reveal Always Than Interesting Things
The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation. Damian Lewis
Best Conversation National Because Tap Succeed Shows
L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. Damian Lewis
Coldplay Pleasures Guilty Ranks Along Still Ice Ice Cream Cream Albums
A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open. Damian Lewis
Before Mouth Stage Breath Cricket Kid Slightly Broke Through Open Had Operated Ball Nose Stand Used
My parents were incredibly inclusive. Damian Lewis
Parents Inclusive Incredibly Were
I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach. Damian Lewis
Life Work Attitude Needs You Work Hard Sometimes Calm Approach Something Had Involved Always Still Methodical Get Hard Play
People need revelation, and then they need resolution. Damian Lewis
People Revelation Then Need Resolution
I'm a slow starter. Damian Lewis
Slow Starter
I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me. Damian Lewis
Love Me Pool Seems Glamour Like Up Going Anywhere Height England Swim Growing Growing Up
What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity. Damian Lewis
Believe Christianity Moral Code
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience. Damian Lewis
Patience Natural Because Producer
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. Damian Lewis
You Experience Examine Only Part Particular Because Isolated Narrow Acting Your
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. Damian Lewis
Relationship Down Way Strip Exactly Exactly The Same Directors Writers Between How Discovered Questions Texts Same Just Ask Actor Symbiotic
Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly. Damian Lewis
Writing Herring Properly Directing Red Well Just Might Really Act
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you. Damian Lewis
You Yourself People Important See About Something Allowing Roles Different Different Things Actor Things
I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough. Damian Lewis
You Think Bit Interesting Really Rough Actor Posh
I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself. Damian Lewis
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