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.

I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I REALLY like what I do for a living. I have the LUCKIEST job in the WORLD. I can get up EVERY day and do what I LOVE for a living.

I THINK we're MISERABLE PARTLY because we have only one GOD, and that's ECONOMICS.

There are a lot of people using technology that are PLAYING to a click with backing vocals already STUCK in there on some computerized THING that RUNS along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

When I auditioned for 'Wedding Crashers,' the PRODUCERS had NEVER SEEN any of my other work except for Bond. I GOT 'Wedding Crashers' partly because I was a Bond girl.

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the AUDIENCE. You would THINK you would be a performer partly so you COULD feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on SITE visits quite often, from AGE 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old BUILDING, trying to find where the leak in the ROOF was.

Is EVERYONE who uses a MacBook Pro a pro? No. It's just basically a faster Mac. And CERTAINLY, pros do USE them, PARTLY for that REASON.

I don't think that what's GOING on in BOSNIA is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as WELL.

I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are OFTEN CAUSED by saying THINGS you haven't thought through properly.

These women WHOSE antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and SHOWING what they've got is PART of their business as much as it is for MALE show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

Toward the middle and END of the Fifties, West European countries became somewhat more IMPORTANT as providers of AID to underdeveloped countries. It was partly due to the prodding of the UNITED States that these countries, as they regained economic viability, should shoulder their share of the aid burden.

My LIFE and my WORK are very interlocked. That's partly why I LIKE to keep my PRIVATE life private.

Ironically, becoming KNOWN publicly was my BIGGEST fear. And it was partly because I'm on the whole a FAIRLY SHY person.