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Damian Lewis

(1971) Television Actor

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Damian Lewis is a television actor, best known for Military Gypsie.

Quick Facts About Damian Lewis

Born: February 11, 1971
Profession: Television Actor
Notable works: Military Gypsie

About Damian Lewis

Damian Watcyn Lewis is a British actor and musician. He rose to prominence portraying U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. Lewis won a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of U.S. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland, and received nominations for his performance as Henry VIII of England in Wolf Hall. He portrayed Bobby Axelrod in the Showtime series Billions in six out of seven seasons, and appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) as actor Steve McQueen.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Damian Lewis

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation,

Best

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People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

Need

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I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl…

Backsides

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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

Band

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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.

Actor

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None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama…

Anxiety and fear

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Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'

Happened

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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…

Approach

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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

Become

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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action…

Action

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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.

Anything

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There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a…

Acting

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It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned…

Action

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I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

American

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I'm not averse to telling people off.

Off

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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight.…

Age

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If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the…

Amazing

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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of…

Children

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You just have to take control of your own performance.

Control

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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Actor

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I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been…

Acting

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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted…

Brave

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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two…

Busy

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You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

About

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If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right…

Drive and passion

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