Damian Lewis Quotes
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I love playing sport.
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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.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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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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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.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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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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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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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.
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I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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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?'
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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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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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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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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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.
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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.
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Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
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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.