I've always been a narcissist.
— Damian Lewis
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 don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
You have to go where the good writing is.
I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
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.
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.
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.
I'm one of those pesky Brits.
You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.
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.
You just have to take control of your own performance.
I'm not very good at strategizing.
