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Damian Lewis [1971-0] English

Rank: 102
Actor

Damian Watcyn Lewis, OBE is an English actor and producer. He is known for portraying U.S. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland, hedge fund manager Bobby "Axe" Axelrod in another Showtime series Billions, Soames Forsyte in the ITV remake of The Forsyte Saga, Detective Charlie Crews in the NBC drama Life, and U.S.

Attitude, Faith, Good, Patience, Sad, Sports

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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 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.	Good	101
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.		102
I love playing sport.	Sports	103
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.		104
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!'		105
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.	Faith	106
People need revelation, and then they need resolution.		107
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.		108
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	109
My parents were incredibly inclusive.		110
The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.		111
I'm a slow starter.		112
I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.		113
I'm not very good at strategizing.		114
If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.		115
You have to go where the good writing is.		116
You just have to take control of your own performance.		117
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.		118
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.		119
You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.		120
I've always been a narcissist.		121
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.'		122
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.		123
I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.		124
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.		125
When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'		126
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.		201
I'd feel guilty just doing gags.		202
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.		203
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.		204
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.		205
I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.		206
I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.		207
I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.		208
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.		209
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.		210
I'm one of those pesky Brits.		211
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.		212
I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.		213
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.		214
I'm always forming bands.		215
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.		216
There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.		217
If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.		218
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.		219
Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.		220
The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.		221
L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.		222
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.		223
My heroes were all in the theatre.		224
I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.		225
What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.		226
It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.		301
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.	Patience	302
Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.		303
I'm very lucky.		304
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.		305
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.		306
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.		307
You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.		308
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.		309
I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.		310
I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'		311
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.		312
I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.	Sad	313
'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.		314
I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.		315
I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.		316
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.		317
There are jobs that come along in your life, if you're lucky enough, that elevate you in a considerable way. And 'Homeland' was definitely one of those jobs.		318
That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.		319
None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.		320
I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'		321
It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.		322
I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.		323
Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'		324
An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.''		325
I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.		326
I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.		401

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