Damian Lewis Quotes
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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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I love playing sport.
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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 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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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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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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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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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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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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It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
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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.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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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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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.