Am I athletic? In my dreams.

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.

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

I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

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

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.