Damian Lewis

The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans! ”

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me. ”

If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict. ”

People need revelation, and then they need resolution. ”

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people. ”

There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny. ”

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.' ”

There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride. ”

You just have to take control of your own performance. ”

It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space. ”