"I always wanted to be an actor."
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"It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time."
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"You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there."
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"Everything's so accelerated now."
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"I would like to do something modern and possibly funny."
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"I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet."
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"The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter."
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"I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon."
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"I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young."
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"A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen."
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"I don't know much about my biological background."
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"I was a pretty difficult teenager."
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"I was never very happy at school."
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"I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'"
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"It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune."
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""I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you."
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"I've always enjoyed family movies anyway. And I grew up loving actors who could hop around and play in something very family friendly, big, playful - and then go and do drama and comedy as well."
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"I've been exploring a lot of different avenues with a number of very different and very, very exciting filmmakers and writers. That's been the trip. I like to find something very, very different from the last thing I did, which might be similar to something I've done before, but as long as it's different from the last thing I did, it keeps me entertained."
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"Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing."
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"I'm a huge fan of Eighties music."
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