Am I Athletic? In My Dreams.

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.

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

Certain Stories That You Want To See Resolve In Certain Ways Are, And Some Aren't, But That's Life.

In The Age Of The Camera Phone It's A Bit Weird When You're Sitting Having Dinner In A Restaurant And People Think They're Being Very Subtle Taking A Photo While In Fact They're Being Very Obvious. When You're In A Middle Of A Mouthful With Friends Or Family And People Come Up Asking For A Photograph, That's When You Want To Say, 'actually, I'm Going To Say No; I'd Like To Finish My Meal. This Is My Time.'

I Think Any Film That Asks Its Audience A Degree Of Tolerance And Acceptance Of Those Less Fortunate Than Themselves Isn't A Bad Thing From Whatever Culture You're In Or From Whatever Part Of Any Political Spectrum.