I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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.
All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
I'm not averse to telling people off.
I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
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 sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.
It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
I've always been a narcissist.
I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.
None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.