A performance can have amazing visuals and special effects, but it has to tell a good story, even if that story isn't original.
Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.
Young people are so often dissed by the media.
When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.
I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.
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.
To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.
We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.
I think 'Twilight' was such a phenomenon that it will be awhile before anything like that will happen again. Cause it really influenced pop culture, and the stars of it - well, the people who became stars out of it - their lives were completely changed.
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.