Damian Lewis Quotes
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People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
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I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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I'm very lucky.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.
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In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
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You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.
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You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.
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This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.
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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.
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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.