I am a hopeless romantic.

There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

Sometimes when a scene is written or directed to be shouted or played incredibly angrily, I always think it's way more terrifying when someone is fuming and talks in a very calm way. I always want people to shout at me if they're angry - it freaks me out that whole thing of, 'I'm not angry I'm just disappointed.'

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

I love when people become obsessed with Downton.