Lennie James Quotes

• If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

  Lennie James

  Real, Hero, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

  Lennie James

  Interesting, Guy, Monologues

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like playing guys where it's as important what they're thinking as what they're saying. Those are the people I like playing, and the actor that I strive to be. I like actors who work in that area and I like parts that allow me to work in that area.

  Lennie James

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're very clearly good or you're very clearly bad, then there isn't that much internal dilemma going on, and that's not necessarily as interesting to play.

  Lennie James

  Play, Interesting, Dilemma

  Source: collider.com

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• I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.

  Lennie James

  Drama, Two, Ghost Stories

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

  Lennie James

  Sports, School, Boys

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

  Lennie James

  Jobs, Thinking, Talking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

  Lennie James

  Character, Television, Tvs

  "Lennie James on Acting in England and the U.S". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

  Lennie James

  Watching Tv, Generations, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

  Lennie James

  Together, Pieces, Entertainment

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I owe 'Jericho' my whole time in America, really. It was a fantastic group of people to work with.

  Lennie James

  America, People, Groups

  "Lennie James Talks LINE OF DUTY, His Questionable Character, His Role in LOW WINTER SUN, Memories of JERICHO and Taking on More Comedic Roles". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 8, 2012.

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• My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.

  Lennie James

  Football, Thinking, Boxing

  "Lennie James on Acting in England and the U.S". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only time that I've ever been frightened about a job, because in America they tell stories over such a long time, and I was petrified that I'd get bored.

  Lennie James

  Jobs, America, Long

  "Lennie James on Acting in England and the U.S". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

  Lennie James

  Play, Long, Transition

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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