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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 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. "

Michelle Dockery

In The Past

Past

Hear

" '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. "

" 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. "

" I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really. "

" I do believe in one true love. "

" 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. "

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

" I'd like to do something that involves music. "

Michelle Dockery

Involves

Music

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

" It's a bit of a history lesson, being an actor. I was in 'Burnt By The Sun' at the National, which was set in Stalinist Russia, so I discovered all about that. You learn so much as you go along. "

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

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

" Until I was 27, I'd maybe been to America once and, like, Ibiza when I was 18. That was it. "

Michelle Dockery

Maybe

Once

" I loved the 'Die Hard' films growing up and the 'Taken' movies. They're so entertaining, and I enjoy being on the edge of my seat. "

" 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. "

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

" You can find a connection with any Shakespeare role you play. "

" I love discovering tiny streets. "

" I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do. "

Michelle Dockery

Get

People

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

" At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing. "

Michelle Dockery

Family

Through

" 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. "

Michelle Dockery

Dance

Training

" Cooking can cure almost anything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Michelle Dockery

Time

Think

" It's always fun to play dress up. "

Michelle Dockery

Dress

Play

" 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. "

" In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion. "

" 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. "

" I get so excited about reading a new script. "