We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.
Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically.
I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.
I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.
I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are. . . . But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
If you had a front row seat at the Renaissance, you would have seen Machiavelli come by plotting, and you would have seen murders in the streets, you would have seen violence, you have seen people burning books and it would have looked like the world was a horrible place, but that's where all these incredible stuff we're still living with comes out of.
I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board