I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

Next quotes

• Michelle Dockery:

  I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

• Michelle Dockery:

  I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so love

• Michelle Dockery:

  When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, ta

• Michelle Dockery:

  I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all

• Michelle Dockery:

  If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about hi

• Michelle Dockery:

  'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied

• Michelle Dockery:

  Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.

• Michelle Dockery:

  Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and w

• Michelle Dockery:

  I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.

• Michelle Dockery:

  I get so excited about reading a new script.