I Have An Excellent Internal Compass.

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.

For The Last Episode [of Downton Abbey], You'll Need Some Handkerchiefs. I Needed Handkerchiefs Reading It. It Wasn't Because It Necessarily Moved Me While Reading It, But It Was The Experience Of Reading It When I Realized It Was The Last Time I Was Ever Going To Be Reading One Of Those Scripts. That Was Quite Terminal.

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

I'd Love To Retire Somewhere Like Winchester, Where You Have One Foot On The Pavement But A Sense Of Being In The Country As Well.

I Always Try To Look For The Best In Most Places.