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62 quotes by Damian Lewis

Damian Watcyn Lewis, OBE (born 11 February 1971), is an English actor and producer. He is best known for portraying Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland, which earned him an Emmy and a Golden Globe, Soames Forsyte in the ITV remake of The Forsyte Saga, Detective Charlie Crews in the NBC drama Life, and Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
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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... →

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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... →

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People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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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.

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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

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I'm a slow starter.

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