Damian Lewis People Quotations

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And theres a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you dont need to do so.

Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre 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.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

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

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

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

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.