I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

If youre going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

America does not like people being not nice to dogs.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

I'm a working class lad.