People's minds are overloaded with information.

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.

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

I never get recognised.

I'm actually just an actor.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

I'm sorry if me being turned on turns you on.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

Open up your plans and damn you're free!

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

Be wary of people who use quotes... I don't know who said that.

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.