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 was painfully shy as a child.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

Im an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.

I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.

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.

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.