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You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#class #democracy #different #faith #going

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

— Damian Lewis

#catch #eyes #good #guess #i

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

#had #i #like #make #required

I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#i #less #more #more or less #next

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#done #hamlet #i #myself #played

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. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#comfort #energy #find #had #i

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#focus #hand #i #learned #lesson

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#feel #i #i think #passing #really

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#certain #express #maker #place #spirit

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#abraham lincoln #breathe #into #life #lincoln