Michelle Dockery famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 #Today #Way
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
My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.
-- Michelle Dockery

#Sides #Taught #Mum
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
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 #Goes On #Shy
I get so excited about reading a new script.
-- Michelle Dockery

#Reading #Scripts #Excited
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
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

#Space #Cycling #Would Be
Cooking can cure almost anything.
-- Michelle Dockery

#Cooking #Cures
Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.
-- Michelle Dockery

#Never Forget #Forget #Scene
I love discovering tiny streets.
-- Michelle Dockery

#Tiny #Discovering #Streets
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

#Ties #Years #Scripts
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

#Training #Preparation #Age
I can be so blown away by story lines.
-- Michelle Dockery

#Lines #Stories #Blown Away
I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.
-- Michelle Dockery

#Singing #Acting #Just Being
Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.
-- Michelle Dockery

#Song #Lines #Forget
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
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
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
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
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 #Soap
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
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 #Play
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

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