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

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.

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

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

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

The key to our lives as Christians today is how clearly we see by faith the resurrected Christ.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.