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A Typical Christmas Is Me Shucking Oysters. I Love Them And I Always Get Them In At Christmas.

It's Never Happened To Me Before, In My Career, And Never Will Again. It's A One-off Experience. It's A Rare Treat To Have A Cast Together For Six Years. Crews Come And Go, And A Few Of Them Have Been There Throughout, But Not Many. It's Rare, In My Experience, After 26 Years, To Have Had A Proper Company In A Show That Enjoys Each Other's Company, And Who Is Such A Fine Bunch Of People And Actors. To Have Struck A Chord With People, And To Have Had That Combination, Is Extremely Rare.

You Have No Idea What's Going To Happen [in Downton Abbey] Until You Get The Script. We Roughly Knew A Couple Of The Key Points That Were Going To Happen, But When I Got The Last Episode, I Turned To The Last Page To Check That I Was Still Alive.

In Britain, The Press Want To Kill A Show By Revealing What's Coming Up And Spoiling The Pleasure.

I Certainly Couldn't Run A Big Country House, Nor Could I Organize The Greatest Show On Earth.