I've Had People Come Up

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.

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

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.

At Home I Have A Tibetan Terrier. I'm Still Not Sure If He's A Genius Or Very Thick. It's A Fine Line.

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.