Michelle Dockery Quotes

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• I don't mind wearing a corset; it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.
• If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did…
• I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.
• Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.
• 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?…
• I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do.
• 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 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I get so excited about reading a new script.
• I can be so blown away by story lines.
• Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.
• My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.
• I love discovering tiny streets.
• 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…
• In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.
• I think so often you can come out of drama school and get thrown in the deep end.
• I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

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