I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
Damian LewisYou 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.
Damian LewisActing can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
Damian LewisI 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.
Damian LewisI don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
Damian LewisIt'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.
Damian Lewis