If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey, ' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

We have no choice but to be guilty God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.

She's stark raving mad!

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.