My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

Because youve done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

If youre going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness.

I'm a working class lad.

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

I'm proud of the fact that Downton Abbey was born in a recession, at a time when ITV had dropped a lot of drama programmes. And I know that because I was out of work at the time!

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed.