I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since Ive been in Downton Abbey, which has made me much more fashion conscious.

I believe anything can happen.

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.

I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!

Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity Ive met as a result of Downton Abbey.

Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.