Quotes By Damian Lewis

My heroes were all in the theatre.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

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.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

I've always been a narcissist.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

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.

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

I'm very lucky.

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.