Damian Lewis Quotes

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
Damian Lewis

Resolution, Revelation

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
Damian Lewis

Allah, Enough, Seeing

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

Sleep, Feeling, Night

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

Through, Cricket, Before

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
Damian Lewis

Movie, Scared, Tension

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

Good, True, Two

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!'
Damian Lewis

Thought, Young, Hair

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.
Damian Lewis

Life, Time, Good

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.
Damian Lewis

Faith, Good, Democracy

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
Damian Lewis

Home, Enjoy, Fact

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis

Time, Good, Great

My heroes were all in the theatre.
Damian Lewis

Theatre, Heroes

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
Damian Lewis

Job, Saying, Off

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

American, Action, Trouble

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Damian Lewis

Experience, Acting, Isolated

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
Damian Lewis

Rather, Reveal, Conceal

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
Damian Lewis

Enjoy, Story, Creating

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
Damian Lewis

Great, God, Jesus

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
Damian Lewis

Live, Mean, Big

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
Damian Lewis

Good, Eyes, Often

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, Growing, Seems

I love playing sport.
Damian Lewis

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
Damian Lewis

Actor, Bit, Rough

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.
Damian Lewis

Reality, Acting, Between

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
Damian Lewis

Success, School, Successful

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: February 11, 1971

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