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

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

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.

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

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

You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.