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I'm a slow starter.
I love playing sport.
I'm always forming bands.
I'm one of those pesky Brits.
I've always been a narcissist.
I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
My heroes were all in the theatre.
My parents were incredibly inclusive.
I'm not averse to telling people off.
There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.
You have to go where the good writing is.
I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
People need revelation, and then they need resolution.
You just have to take control of your own performance.
What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.
I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'
All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.
I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.
The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.