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

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

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

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.

I have an excellent internal compass.

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

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.