146 Quotes by Damian Lewis

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.’

I’d lived in LA for two years and I said to my agent that I wouldn’t do any more network TV, because my family and I had just made the decision to live in England. It would be a whole year in LA shooting network TV.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It’s the creating of the story.