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" The kitchen is the most important place in any house. Visit your family, and that's where you'll end up. Go to a party, that's where everyone congregates. "

Michelle Dockery

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" We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want - but I think chivalry has been lost a little bit. "

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" The whole acting game can sometimes be a bit false, and you meet a lot of people in it for the fame - so there's nothing I love more than going back to Essex. "

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

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" It's great to have a home and everything else that comes with it. "

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" In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing. "

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" I regret not learning to drive when I was younger. "

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" I can be so blown away by story lines. "

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" I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. "

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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 wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate. "

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" People will consider me a part of their lives for however long 'Downton Abbey' lasts. It's a lovely thing to feel as an actor. "

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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'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that. "

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" I love singing live, actually. And I'm dying to sing in a role, whether it's in a musical or a biographical film about a singer. It's always been one of my aspirations. "

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" My family keeps me sane. I try to talk to my mum every other day. After I get off the phone, I have a renewed sense of clarity, so I guess a problem shared is a problem lost. It's important to me to keep them close. "

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" I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress, because I was doing impressions of Margaret Thatcher at the age of four. "

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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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" Silk scarves are my thing. I tie them to my handbag or thread them through belt loops or wear them in my hair. Never round my neck, though. "

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" I do believe in one true love. "

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

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" I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day. "

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" 'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed. "

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" A good friend of mine works at Oxfam and has been closely involved in the charity's aid efforts in Syria. "

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

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" I think so often you can come out of drama school and get thrown in the deep end. "

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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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" I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television. "

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