Michelle Dockery quotes

Michelle Dockery is an English actress best known for her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the television series "Downton Abbey." Her work has earned critical acclaim and several award nominations. She continues to impress audiences with her versatile performances in both television and film. Here are 30 of her quotes:

Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time it's a little different, or a different line leaps out at me. It's like re-reading a good book over and over, always noticing something you hadn't seen the time before - and that's rare.

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Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful.

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Cooking can cure almost anything.

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'Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

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For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

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The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process - the characters, the costumes - rather than worrying about the finished product.

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When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.

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My godchildren went to see Taylor Swift in concert and got to meet her. They literally ran toward her and hugged her, and it was amazing. I got big bonus points for it. I'll remind them when they're teenagers.

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I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.

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I get so excited about reading a new script.

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Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

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I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.

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

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I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement.

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I can be so blown away by story lines.

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My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.

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I love discovering tiny streets.

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I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.

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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.

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'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

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I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

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I think the first time I realised Downton Abbey was a hit was when I was sitting in a tea shop in New York and the couple next to me were talking about Downton Abbey, and then they recognised me.

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