Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.

It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.

You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.

Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'

First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.

I have a headache. If only I had a crown to put on!

I am determined to do my very best.

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

You'll see a consistent, like the tea, the tea bags you saw there-you'll see a consistent-did you see the cafeteria? I mean the diner?

You can sleep between lessons but not during them.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.

While we're members of the European Union, we don't have an immigration policy. We can't have an immigration policy. It's a charade for people to pretend we do.

A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.