Quotes from Damian Lewis

My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.

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.

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.

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

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

All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.

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.

I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.