Damian Lewis
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AL KALINE KELLY MCGILLIS WARREN BEATTY TAYLOR SWIFT I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - a... ELIZA COUPE I can open my mouth and eat. I feel my lips, my nose and my mouth. ISABELLE DINOIRE I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19... LAURA VANDERVOORT PETE TOWNSHEND I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends... TARIQ ALI I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my w... BEN SILBERMANN WOODY HARRELSON EDDIE VAN HALEN AYELET WALDMAN DEAN MARTIN ROCKY MARCIANO Now I wake up in the morning, my mouth is closed. I can breathe through my nose, it feels so good. BRAD HOAG When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-ti... JASON ALDEAN CHRIS KYLE When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister a... ANEURIN BARNARD I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when ... ROGER FEDERER When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it. SABRINA CARPENTER When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was str... RUPERT EVANS Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then... GARETH GATES I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was s... BIRDY GISELE BUNDCHEN It's a big accomplishment. I didn't realize I had reached it already. It was a very similar moment t... KEAUNA VINSON HENRY FONDA When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T... 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My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that... DANNY DYER MICKEY ROONEY I was getting tired from playing both sides of the ball and returning punts. I beat my guy. It was a... JOSEPH STONER I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no o... ANDREW O'HAGAN JOE PERRY I love my name. I didn't used to when I was a kid. People called me Lucky Charms, after the brea... LUCKY BLUE SMITH I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis. DAMIAN LEWIS VIRAT KOHLI MIKE BINDER CAMERON RUSSELL I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was seven, and it was a bit of a struggle to begin with. It was... PRINCESS BEATRICE OF YORK KEVIN NEALON WILL FERRELL When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits. PAUL O'GRADY One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't... RICKIE FOWLER I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I co... CLARON MCFADDEN BARBARA WALTERS ZENDAYA BOBBY ORR I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the per... GEORGE BEST PALOMA FAITH I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people... SKYLAR GREY MICHELLE PAVER BOB DYLAN RICKY JAY KEVIN GATES My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When ... VALERIE JUNE DAVID THEWLIS I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to... DREW DAYWALT ELLEN BARKIN Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning... EMILE HIRSCH Growing up, when I was at live shows, I was always hoping someone would come out on stage and say, &... JAMES BAY H. P. LOVECRAFT
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been ... DAMIAN LEWIS You just have to take control of your own performance. DAMIAN LEWIS Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end. DAMIAN LEWIS All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times. DAMIAN LEWIS I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to su... DAMIAN LEWIS There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into y... DAMIAN LEWIS Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words... DAMIAN LEWIS If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the direc... DAMIAN LEWIS I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articul... DAMIAN LEWIS I love playing sport. DAMIAN LEWIS You have to go where the good writing is. DAMIAN LEWIS I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. DAMIAN LEWIS The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and... DAMIAN LEWIS I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough. DAMIAN LEWIS You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a tradin... DAMIAN LEWIS I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes y... DAMIAN LEWIS In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still you... DAMIAN LEWIS I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. DAMIAN LEWIS For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story. DAMIAN LEWIS People need revelation, and then they need resolution. DAMIAN LEWIS In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain ... DAMIAN LEWIS Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist. DAMIAN LEWIS It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which alway... DAMIAN LEWIS I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and ... DAMIAN LEWIS When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till mak... DAMIAN LEWIS I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent. DAMIAN LEWIS I'm not averse to telling people off. DAMIAN LEWIS Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is ... DAMIAN LEWIS I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person. DAMIAN LEWIS When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on t... DAMIAN LEWIS I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network sh... DAMIAN LEWIS If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you h... DAMIAN LEWIS I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that... DAMIAN LEWIS I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it wa... DAMIAN LEWIS There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight... DAMIAN LEWIS A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like A... DAMIAN LEWIS I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interva... DAMIAN LEWIS Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act... DAMIAN LEWIS I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plent... DAMIAN LEWIS I've always been a narcissist. DAMIAN LEWIS It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is... DAMIAN LEWIS The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar America... DAMIAN LEWIS Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a... DAMIAN LEWIS I'm a slow starter. DAMIAN LEWIS I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. Th... DAMIAN LEWIS I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist th... DAMIAN LEWIS I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required thin... DAMIAN LEWIS I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often th... DAMIAN LEWIS I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-f... DAMIAN LEWIS You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it. DAMIAN LEWIS It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 month... DAMIAN LEWIS I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering fr... DAMIAN LEWIS Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.' DAMIAN LEWIS Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time. DAMIAN LEWIS I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than ... DAMIAN LEWIS There's a high head count on 'Homeland.' DAMIAN LEWIS I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that... DAMIAN LEWIS I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected somethin... DAMIAN LEWIS You know, I think I am faintly spiritual. DAMIAN LEWIS I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my da... DAMIAN LEWIS I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo. DAMIAN LEWIS I'm not very good at strategizing. DAMIAN LEWIS If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker. DAMIAN LEWIS You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, &#... DAMIAN LEWIS There are lots of different reasons to choose roles. DAMIAN LEWIS I'm always forming bands. DAMIAN LEWIS I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the... DAMIAN LEWIS I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Bu... DAMIAN LEWIS It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at ... DAMIAN LEWIS What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity. DAMIAN LEWIS I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamou... DAMIAN LEWIS I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call them... DAMIAN LEWIS It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've go... DAMIAN LEWIS Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part. DAMIAN LEWIS I'm very lucky. DAMIAN LEWIS Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience. DAMIAN LEWIS No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy. DAMIAN LEWIS I'd feel guilty just doing gags. DAMIAN LEWIS I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis. DAMIAN LEWIS I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop. DAMIAN LEWIS It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family live... DAMIAN LEWIS That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. DAMIAN LEWIS I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody. DAMIAN LEWIS '24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more ... DAMIAN LEWIS I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was i... DAMIAN LEWIS I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustration... DAMIAN LEWIS There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to ... DAMIAN LEWIS This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marve... DAMIAN LEWIS My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a backgrou... DAMIAN LEWIS My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for... DAMIAN LEWIS I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted. DAMIAN LEWIS My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there. DAMIAN LEWIS We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single. DAMIAN LEWIS It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's... DAMIAN LEWIS If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying ... DAMIAN LEWIS You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful ... 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DAMIAN MARLEY Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things t... DAMIAN MARLEY Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'... DAMIAN MARLEY By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able ... DAMIAN MARLEY The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with... DAMIAN MARLEY The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'... DAMIAN MARLEY Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, howeve... DAMIAN MARLEY More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognis... DAMIAN MARLEY I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener. DAMIAN MARLEY You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of Af... DAMIAN MARLEY The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time... DAMIAN MARLEY I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach. DAMIAN MARLEY It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the inte... DAMIAN MARLEY I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are a... DAMIAN MARLEY A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual chang... DAMIAN MARLEY Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that. DAMIAN MARLEY We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings. DAMIAN MARLEY I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; t... DAMIAN MARLEY My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died ... DAMIAN MARLEY Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives. DAMIAN MARLEY I can't work without music. DAMIAN LOEB I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby. DAMIAN LOEB When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we ar... DAMIAN LOEB You just can't control your art in the future. DAMIAN LOEB Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well. DAMIAN LOEB I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's alre... DAMIAN LOEB I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction fi... DAMIAN LOEB I take a lot of pictures. DAMIAN LOEB When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures,... DAMIAN LOEB I had no interest in high school besides art. DAMIAN LOEB Artists talk in 'art speak.' DAMIAN LOEB Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard... DAMIAN LOEB 'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking ... DAMIAN LOEB The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography all... DAMIAN LOEB Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer... DAMIAN LOEB If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the musi... DAMIAN LOEB I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisem... DAMIAN LOEB I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong. DAMIAN LOEB The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with. DAMIAN LOEB I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time... DAMIAN LOEB I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white. DAMIAN LOEB I record all night and sleep all day. DAMIAN MARLEY DAMIAN WOETZEL I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a... DAMIAN MARLEY DAMIAN WOETZEL DAMIAN WOETZEL I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair beca... DAMIAN MARLEY It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. T... DAMIAN MARLEY In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is... DAMIAN MARLEY Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jam... DAMIAN MARLEY Invite your Data Science team to ask questions and assume any system, rule, or way of doing things i... DAMIAN MINGLE We wanted to make an album that sounds like our band, and not a heady, self-conscious studio project... DAMIAN KULASH To me this album seems more energetic and raw, with more space — unlike the first one, which was a... DAMIAN KULASH Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul.It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold. DAMIAN MARLEY Be ok with anything and everything will be ok. DAMIAN CUTILLO Charlie, Last Name Wilson DAMIAN MARLEY So they sitting on their time bombNow I know the time has comeTelling you what goes up is coming on ... DAMIAN MARLEY Investors are sitting on profits in Mexico and are taking them now, given the nervousness in Argenti... DAMIAN FRASER Peter looked in control and he was a sportsman. They are competitors, but they are also fair. DAMIAN DEMARCO We didn't want to leave our home. I never felt anti-Semitism there or anything like that, but we wer... DAMIAN NISENSON I think that's Australian baseball. We're going to fight and we're not going to give up until the la... DAMIAN MOSS You see guys who come from nothing, working so hard at what they do. I think that's one of the reaso... DAMIAN MOSS At school, I was the only guy who played baseball. Everyone thought I was a little different. There ... DAMIAN MOSS That was my main goal, to end his hitting streak. The guy's a good hitter. He's going to have anothe... DAMIAN MOSS There are people in the factory who want to do a bit more and so it's about harnessing their enthusi... DAMIAN HUGHES I really think it is the optimal time to make these decisions. From infancy to high school, you are ... DAMIAN BREAUX We didn't play Crush football that day. DAMIAN HARRELL A high cutter. Usually when the ball is up, it's a sign that a guy is overthrowing. DAMIAN MILLER Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist. DAMIAN MARLEY Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twic... DAMIAN MARLEY [By entering the family business of music he followed many of his siblings including elder brothers ... DAMIAN MARLEY I like the fact that he's a competitor. Mad Dog (pitching coach Mike Maddux ) said that when he warm... DAMIAN MILLER Look for a team with the hot hand coming into the tournament when looking for an upset. DAMIAN STAMM Devoid of any survival instinct, they're all truly running towards their very own apocalypse. Very s... DAMIAN BERTHIAUME This number combined with the other high numbers is going to force the government to keep interest r... DAMIAN FRASER A business shines brightest when its people are working on problems bigger than themselves DAMIAN MINGLE
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The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography ca... 