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

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

I have an excellent internal compass.

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.

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.

Am I athletic? In my dreams.