Michelle Dockery Quotes

• 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 his hair.

  Michelle Dockery

  Hair, Dinner, Today

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Drama, Thinking, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The last time I cried? 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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Teenager, Bonus, Lasts

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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

  Past, Class, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Powerful, Years, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Healthy, Looks, Way

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• I love discovering tiny streets.

  Michelle Dockery

  Tiny, Discovering, Streets

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• I get so excited about reading a new script.

  Michelle Dockery

  Reading, Scripts, Excited

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

  Michelle Dockery

  Taught, Sides, Mum

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cooking can cure almost anything.

  Michelle Dockery

  Cooking, Cures

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  New York, Couple, Thinking

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

  Michelle Dockery

  Fashion, War, Celebration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 its something that carries with me to this day.

  Michelle Dockery

  Preparation, Training, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Michelle Dockery

  Singing, Acting, Different

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Drama, School, Discovery

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Michelle Dockery

  Song, Lines, Forget

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Character, Thinking, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Children, School, Ballet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  America, People, Lovely

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Years, Ties, Scripts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Michelle Dockery

  Never Forget, Forget, Scene

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Cycling, Space, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Michelle Dockery

  Thinking, Shy, Goes On

  "Michelle Dockery Talks DOWNTON ABBEY Season 4, Her Reaction to Season 3’s Cast Departures, Lady Mary as a Mother, Love Interests, and More". Press Tour Interview, collider.com. August 09, 2013.

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• I can be so blown away by story lines.

  Michelle Dockery

  Stories, Lines, Blown Away

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Michelle Dockery

  Moving, Mind, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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