I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.
The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.
I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.
I can pretty much say all of us know when Downton is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.
You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.
When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.