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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

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie. — Damian Lewis

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

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

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. — Damian Lewis

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

My parents were incredibly inclusive. — Damian Lewis

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy. — 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 love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me. — Damian Lewis

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

You have to go where the good writing is. — Damian Lewis

My heroes were all in the theatre. — Damian Lewis

I'm one of those pesky Brits. — 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

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

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only. — 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 always forming bands. — Damian Lewis

People need revelation, and then they need resolution. — Damian Lewis

I'm not very good at strategizing. — Damian Lewis

I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person. — Damian Lewis

I've always been a narcissist. — Damian Lewis

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

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

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis. — Stephen Rodrick

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.' — Damian Lewis

I love playing sport. — Damian Lewis

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history. — Damian Lewis

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you. — Damian Lewis

I'd feel guilty just doing gags. — Damian Lewis

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist. — Damian Lewis

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

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles. — Damian Lewis

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

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

I'm a slow starter. — Damian Lewis

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

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

You just have to take control of your own performance. — Damian Lewis

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus. — Damian Lewis

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

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

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual. — Damian Lewis