146 Quotes by Damian Lewis

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

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

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

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And theres a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you dont need to do so.

Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

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.