I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!
People are always asking me for my favorite recipe, and I have to say, 'I don't really have one.'
I don't do freeways.
Since I've turned 50, I've had the best roles of my life, and I've got married. Everyone said that wasn't possible because there are no men, but I've done it. I think it's just going to get better.
I've been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.
As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens.
I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.
For many years, I picked the wrong men, or they picked me. I think if you don't feel attractive or worth something as a woman, you attract men who don't really look after you. That's what happened to me, but I realise that those relationships were like a journey, helping me to learn something about myself.
I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.
I quite like L.A.
I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.
My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much.
I believe anything can happen.
I go dog-walking a lot.
People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.
I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.
'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical.
I was painfully shy as a child.
The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there in the first place because I was very, very shy.
