In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think they're being very subtle taking a…

- Hugh Bonneville

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

- Hugh Bonneville

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

- Hugh Bonneville

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

- Hugh Bonneville

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 ha…

- Hugh Bonneville

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

- Hugh Bonneville

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

- Hugh Bonneville

Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

- Hugh Bonneville

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

- Hugh Bonneville