Quotes by Damian Lewis

About Damian Lewis:

Damian Watcyn Lewis is an English actor and producer. He is best known for portraying U.S. Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody in the Showtime series Homeland, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, Soames Forsyte in the ITV remake of The Forsyte Saga, Detective Charlie Crews in the NBC drama Life, and U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. He appeared as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall, which earned him his third Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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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.

Damian Lewis

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.

Damian Lewis

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

Damian Lewis

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

Damian Lewis

I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.

Damian Lewis

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.

Damian Lewis

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

Damian Lewis

I'm not very good at strategizing.

Damian Lewis

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 muc...

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Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as lon...

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You have to go where the good writing is.

Damian Lewis

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.

Damian Lewis

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Damian Lewis

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...

Damian Lewis

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

Damian Lewis

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?'

Damian Lewis

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't nee...

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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.

Damian Lewis

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

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Author Bio

  • NameDamian Lewis
  • DescriptionEnglish actor and producer
  • AliasesDamian Watcyn Lewis
  • BornFebruary 11, 1971
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Actor; Film Producer
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire