Top 78 Quotes by Damian Lewis

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

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.

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.

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

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

Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'

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

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.

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