What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

I can be as contrary as I choose.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'