Damian Lewis

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

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

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

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

If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

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.'

I'm always forming bands.

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.

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.

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

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.

I've always been a narcissist.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

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

You just have to take control of your own performance.

You have to go where the good writing is.

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.