In a World Cup you don't have anywhere to hide.

Great fast bowlers don't have to worry about whether the track is flat or green. They'll find a way to get wickets.

Coaches have plans and structures, and if you're not in those plans you shouldn't take it personally.

I have never been a stats person.

It's enough to play for South Africa and take wickets for South Africa, and then I managed to get 400. I never thought that that would happen.

When you are in the company of greatness, there is only one thing to do: to raise your game.

One of my highlights of being a Proteas player is that at one stage we were the No. 1 team across all formats.

You get guys that are good. Then you get guys that are excellent. And then you get AB de Villiers.

With Test cricket, it's very important that you are bowling at high speed but T20 cricket is a great way to be versatile.

If you are just constantly doing the same thing, good batters can adjust.

If I wanted to do anything in the coaching world, I would probably need to upskill myself.

It's very easy to say take a player, a world-class player out of the system of playing and just push him into a coaching role but coaching is a whole other thing. It's a skill.

There's a lot of guys who can bowl 150 km/h when you give them the ball when they're fresh in the morning, but can they do it late in the afternoon when it's boiling hot and they're bowling their 20th over for the day? I want to be able to do that and I want to be the only guy who is able to do that.

I would love to bowl 160 km/h. Any fast bowler would love to do that. But for me that is almost impossible.

The thing I've got to concentrate on for South Africa is bowling at good pace and if the ball is in the right area that will cause enough trouble.

But I love bowling in India, the grounds are quite flat whereas in South Africa you feel you are running uphill.

It's something that I've wanted to do for a while, play Big Bash. Unfortunately representing the Proteas for the bulk of my career over Christmas time we've always got Test matches on, the Boxing Day and New Year's Test matches. So I haven't been available.

The biggest relief off my shoulders was when I retired from Test cricket and I knew I didn't have to bowl 40 overs in a Test anymore.

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.

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.

If you have the same drive and passions that everybody else has - for example, if you're trying to do the right thing for your family and do the right thing for people you employ - then you can be forgiven quite a lot.

I'm not averse to telling people off.

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.

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.

I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

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 is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.

We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

It'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.

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.

Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.

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.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

I'm not very good at strategizing.

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.

You have to go where the good writing is.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

Quiet people, people who aren't given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - they're also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

I've always been a narcissist.