English - Actor | February 11, 1971 -
If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
Damian Lewis
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It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
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I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
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I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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