I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

We were all expecting to finish [Downton Abbey] after Series 1, actually. And then, it got extended to Series 3, and that's when two of our much loved and much missed friends left. And then, it was going to be done with Series 5, but Julian Fellowes said, "I'd like to do one more." So it's been a series of extensions, rather than wondering how much longer we can go on for.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.