Quotes by Damian Lewis

Damian Lewis

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.

Balls

Kids

Mouths

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

Creating

Rehearsal

Stories

I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I, on the other hand, spent eight months with my face squashed up against someone else’s backside in one sodden trench after another. And it looks as if Tom might have got the girl again [in Colditz], damn his eyes.

Brother

Eye

Girl

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

Believe

Jesus

Son

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

Eye

Lucky

People

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

Movie

People

Thinking

I’d lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn’t do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.

Decision

Two

Years

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.

Attitude

Hard Work

Play

I’ve done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

Done

Theater

I’ve had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother’s energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

Buddhist

Loss

Mother

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Actors

Attitude

Balls

Believe

Brother

Buddhist

Class

Creating

Decision

Done

Emotional

England

Eye

Foreign Policy

Fun

Girl

Giving

Government

Hair

Hard Work

Ideas

Independent

Jesus

Jobs

Kids

Latin

Long

Loss

Lucky

Mother

Mouths

Movie

Natural

Needs

Party

Patience

People

Play

Producers

Quiet People

Red

Rehearsal

Rereading

Revelations

Roles

Running

Scripts

Son

Stage

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Quotes by Damian Lewis

Damian Lewis

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.

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

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

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

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

I’d lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn’t do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.

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.

I’ve done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I’ve had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother’s energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

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