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

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

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

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

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.

I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.