If you rile a tiger, he's going to show his claws.
The devil always has the better tunes!
Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. Everyone's ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.
Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.
If you're going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.
Working on 'Downton Abbey' is amazing, but there's an ensemble cast of between 18 and 21 actors. With 'Love Life,' there are two couples and a few other key characters. As a smaller unit, you've got to take more responsibility - at the same time, you can have more ownership of the direction it's going in.
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.
Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.
Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.
It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.
You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.
There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!
I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.
Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.
America does not like people being not nice to dogs.
If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.
I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm going to scratch all that and become an actor,' I may as well have said I was going to be a Premiership footballer for the chance I'd have.
When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'
I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.
My dad doesn't watch 'Coronation Street.' But my mum is a massive fan. I'd like to think my dad will watch it for a few token episodes, as I'm in it.
