Damian Lewis Quotes
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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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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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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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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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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 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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I love playing sport.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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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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It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
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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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I'm a slow starter.
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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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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
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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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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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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.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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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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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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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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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.