We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history. Damian Lewis More Quotes by Damian Lewis More Quotes From Damian Lewis For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story. Damian Lewis rehearsal creating stories I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl — in fact, the only girl in a cast of hundreds of smelly men! I, on the other hand, spent eight months with my face squashed up against someone else’s backside in one sodden trench after another. And it looks as if Tom might have got the girl again [in Colditz], damn his eyes. Damian Lewis girl eye brother My heroes were all in the theatre. Damian Lewis my-hero theatre hero People need revelation, and then they need resolution. Damian Lewis revelations people needs I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. Damian Lewis movie people thinking You know, I think I am faintly spiritual. Damian Lewis spiritual knows thinking 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!' Damian Lewis red england hair 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. Damian Lewis balls mouths kids 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. Damian Lewis acting reality people It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only. Damian Lewis unfair scripts stage Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience. Damian Lewis producers natural patience No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy. Damian Lewis foreign-policy government long 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. Damian Lewis butterfly sleep night You never know when you're taking a job, ever... but you try to take good scripts. That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available. Even then, it's not [really] in your control. Certainly not in film and TV, because there are so many other elements. You just have to take control of your own performance. Damian Lewis actors trying jobs 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. Damian Lewis hard-work play attitude I'd lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn't do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV. Damian Lewis decision two years In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level. Damian Lewis work-ethic roles intellectual You have to go where the good writing is. Damian Lewis good-writing writing I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo. Damian Lewis theater done 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. Damian Lewis degrees successful school
