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I'm very lucky.Collection: Damian
I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.Collection: Damian
Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.Collection: Damian
You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.Collection: Damian
It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.Collection: Damian
There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.Collection: Damian
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?'Collection: Damian
I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.Collection: Damian
I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience.Collection: Damian
I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.Collection: Damian
I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.Collection: Damian
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.Collection: Damian
There are jobs that come along in your life, if you're lucky enough, that elevate you in a considerable way. And 'Homeland' was definitely one of those jobs.Collection: Damian
That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.Collection: Damian
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.Collection: Damian
I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'Collection: Damian
It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.Collection: Damian
I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.Collection: Damian
Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'Collection: Damian
An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'Collection: Damian
I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.Collection: Damian
Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.Collection: Damian
If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.Collection: Damian
It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.Collection: Damian
I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.Collection: Damian
I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.Collection: Damian
I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.Collection: Damian
My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.Collection: Damian
I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.Collection: Damian
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.Collection: Damian
I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.Collection: Damian
There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'Collection: Damian
It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.Collection: Damian
All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.Collection: Damian
When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.Collection: Damian
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.Collection: Damian
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.Collection: Damian
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.Collection: Damian
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.Collection: Damian
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!Collection: Damian
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.Collection: Damian
Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.Collection: Damian
I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.Collection: Damian
I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.Collection: Damian
I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.Collection: Damian
I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.Collection: Damian
It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.Collection: Damian
I'm not averse to telling people off.Collection: Damian
We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.Collection: Damian
My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.Collection: Damian