37 Quotes by Hugh Bonneville

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

I have an excellent internal compass.

For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved me while reading it, but it was the experience of reading it when I realized it was the last time I was ever going to be reading one of those scripts. That was quite terminal.

Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that sense. But if you write him a one-line question, he'll write you a three-page answer.

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

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

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.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I’m still not sure if he’s a genius or very thick. It’s a fine line.