Lesley Nicol Quotes

My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature.

'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.'

I would love to do a British period drama.

I am a huge 'Downton Abbey' fan - huge!

I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing - following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

I dream of playing Lady Cora's sister on 'Downton Abbey.'

I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.

I am possibly the biggest 'Downton' fan you can ever meet.

'Downton Abbey'. I love all things olden-days, and I'm very interested in somebody brushing my hair out at the end of the night.

You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

I love when people become obsessed with 'Downton.'

'Downton Abbey' didn't have the impact it had just because it was a good story about people. It was something about that period and that world that was fascinating to people on a level that wasn't just as an entertainment.

When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market.

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is.

With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.

I've never seen an episode of 'Downton Abbey.'

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'

On 'Justified', we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note session at Imagine for a TV show I wrote that they were producing, and they happened to say, 'You'd be great as Crosby, do you want to do this show we're doing, 'Parenthood?'

The millions who watch 'Downton Abbey' do so neither relating to the Granthams nor hating them. It's an amused enjoyment of spectacle.

For dramas, I love 'Downton Abbey.' I'm a sucker for the BBC.

My favourite TV show is... 'Downton Abbey.' The characters are wonderful, and the style is created so beautifully on screen. Everything from the table settings to the linen seem perfect to me. While I'm watching it, I'm in a totally different world.