I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her – Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet – people used to say she should go into politics. Damian Lewis Read Quote
I went to boarding school from the age of eight – first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there’s little retreat. That’s why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace. Damian Lewis Read Quote
My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me. Damian Lewis Read Quote
My background was fairly conservative, and I think there’s a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don’t think that’s always helpful. Damian Lewis Read Quote
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. Damian Lewis Read Quote
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans! Damian Lewis Read Quote
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. Damian Lewis Read Quote
I’m not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent. Damian Lewis Read Quote
I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at. Damian Lewis Read Quote
