Quotes from Damian Lewis

I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

I've always been a narcissist.

I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.

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

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

I'm a slow starter.

I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.

My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.

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.

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

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.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

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

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

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.

That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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