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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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Damian Lewis

My heroes were all in the theatre.

Damian Lewis

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

Damian Lewis

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

Damian Lewis

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

Damian Lewis

If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

Damian Lewis

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

Damian Lewis

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

Damian Lewis

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

Damian Lewis

A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

Damian Lewis

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

Damian Lewis

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Damian Lewis

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 ...

Damian Lewis

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

Damian Lewis

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.

Damian Lewis

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Damian Lewis

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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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