In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly

I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

I never get recognised.

I'm actually just an actor.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

Just feel it, feel that connection and allow it. You will soon find that you attract similar influences.

Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.