'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.

Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do.

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.