Quotes By Damian Lewis

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

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

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

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.

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

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.

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

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

I'm a slow starter.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

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.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

I love playing sport.

A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

I'm always forming bands.

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

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.

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.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

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