Damian Lewis Quotes
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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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.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
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I'm a slow starter.
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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.
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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.
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.