You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

When you get a bit older and you realise that no one knows what they're doing, no one's perfect and it's fine.

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

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.