I have an excellent internal compass.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

I always try to look for the best in most places.

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved me while reading it, but it was the experience of reading it when I realized it was the last time I was ever going to be reading one of those scripts. That was quite terminal.

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