I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

It's not something that's at the forefront of my mind, but I think I'd regret it if I didn't have children.

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful.

You must resist negative thoughts, negative criticism and negative influences.

I saw an injured black cat. God knows, who has crossed her path.

Love must face reality, if it is to surviveJumping in the Puddles of Life

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

I want us to be as good as we say we are and as others think we should be.

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.

I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.

Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.