Top 78 Quotes by Damian Lewis

There are jobs that come along in your life, if you're lucky enough, that elevate you in a considerable way. And 'Homeland' was definitely one of those jobs.

I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

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

You have to go where the good writing is.

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.