When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

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

In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.