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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. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

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

— Damian Lewis

#because #been #between #call #clear

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#along #coldplay #cream #guilty #ice

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#consciously #determination #drunk #getting #i

Self-preservation is the first law of nature. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#first law #law #nature #self-preservation

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#come #country #custodians #driven #english

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#conceal #i #i think #labels #like

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music. ↗

— Jerry Lee Lewis

#any #back #certainly #few #had

Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then. ↗

— Jerry Lee Lewis

#good #know #like #nothin #now

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#already #because #comedy #feelings #get