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'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.

I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

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

I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.