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Penelope Wilton

Dame Penelope Alice Wilton, DBE (born 3 June 1946) is an English actress. She is known for starring opposite Richard Briers in the BBC sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–89); playing Homily in The Borrowers (1992) and The Return of the Borrowers (1993); and for her role as the widowed Mrs Isobel Crawley (later Isobel Grey, Baroness Merton) in the ITV drama Downton Abbey (2010–15). She also played the recurring role of Harriet Jones in Doctor Who (2005–08).

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Mostly in life people are trying not to have emotions.

Emotion, Life, Mostly, People, Trying

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

Knows, Recognize, Relationship, See, Trouble, Unhappy

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

Acting, Attracts, People, Shy

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

Educating, Life, Spent, Whole, Whole Life

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

Comedy, Cry, Laughing, Spite, Trying

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

Everyone, Legs, Measurement, Surprise, Tell

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

Career, Careers, Done, Keep, Needs

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

Learnt, Listen, Think, Thinking

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

Figure, Figures, Iconic, Lightly, Play

I’ve learnt to listen. I don’t think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.

Hear, People, Play, Saying, Thinking

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

America, Deep, House, Russia

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

Knows, Look, Looks, People, Pretend

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

Child, Children, Known, Loss, Lost

I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.

Book, Great Journeys, Journey, Journeys, Moors, York

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

Century, Close, Close Relationship, Relationships, Twentieth Century, Writers

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

Character, Characters, Drawn, Journey, Journeys, Real

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

Distress, Light, People, Unhappy, Way

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Become, Grumpy, Older, Older Women, True, Women

Some people will never change.

Change, Never Change, People