I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

I'm a mother of three children, and we do make mistakes.

I've never seen an episode of Downton Abbey.

I am delighted to join Doctor Who and to be working with this incredible team. Ms Delphox is a great character and someone I've had a lot of fun playing.

Im a size 12 and Im very happy with it.

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

My children have been all over the world, and I think it's so good for them: expanding their horizons and imagination and seeing how other people live.

When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, " he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

We travel so much as touring musicians and artists that sometimes, when you hear a great song that you really think could be on your project, you go ahead and record it instead of try to write it.

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

We are the hero of our own story.

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher.

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.