Damian Lewis – 9 Quotes

9 Quotes by Damian Lewis

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.

– Damian Lewis

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.

– Damian Lewis

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.

– Damian Lewis

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

– Damian Lewis

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.

– 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

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

– 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