Top 20 Quotes of Damian Lewis: โ We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history. โ For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story. โ I always resented Tom [Hardy] for turning up on Band Of Brothers and getting the girl โ 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 elseโs backside in one sodden trench after another. And it looks as if Tom might have got the girl again [in Colditz], damn his eyes. โ My heroes were all in the theatre. โ People need revelation, and then they need resolution. โ I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. โ You know, I think I am faintly spiritual. โ 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!' โ 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. โ Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist. โ It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. โ I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet. โ I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it. โ I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there. โ It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do. โ You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.' โ You just have to take control of your own performance. โ Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people. โ I love playing sport. โ I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me. โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ ๐ Author: Damian Lewis โ Career: Actor ๐ Life: b. February 11, 1971 ๐ท #quotes_Damian_Lewis, #quotes__Assuming, #quotes__Writing