#ten

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

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#again #because #constant #control #easy

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#i love #listen #love #people #sit

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#being #extent #history #i #keen

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#i #myself #really #stories #storyteller

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#alive #being #film #finished #i

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#because #doing #i #particularly #perhaps

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#being #display #need #often #people

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #been #decisions #haven #hindsight

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#attention #directed #early #exploring #government