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Working on 'Downton Abbey' is amazing, but there's an ensemble cast of between 18 and 21 actors. With 'Love Life,' there are two couples and a few other key characters. As a smaller unit, you've got to take more responsibility - at the same time, you can have more ownership of the direction it's going in.

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Love, Other, Downton Abbey, Key

Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. Everyone's ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.

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Egg, Lovely, Everyone, Hills

I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm going to scratch all that and become an actor,' I may as well have said I was going to be a Premiership footballer for the chance I'd have.

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Theatrical, Working Class, Lad

My dad doesn't watch 'Coronation Street.' But my mum is a massive fan. I'd like to think my dad will watch it for a few token episodes, as I'm in it.

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Think, Like, Mum, Episodes

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

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Play, Joe, Downton Abbey, Abbey

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

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Different People, Roles, Scenarios

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech is spot on.

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Good, Rhythm, Something, Lines

If I had a comfort blanket, I wouldn't have been as passionate and driven.

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Passionate, Driven, Been, Blanket

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

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Hard, Being, Times, Edwardian

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

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Give, Through, Very, Sister

The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.

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Reason, Audience, Move, Response

People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.

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Been, Feels, Identify, Heartbroken

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'

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Think, Posh, Accuse, Minute

If you're going to kiss a man, let it be a beautiful man like Ed Speleers.

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Beautiful, Like, Going, Kiss

I would like to do theatre because it scares me, and I think you should do things that scare you.

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Think, Like, I Think, Scares

Being in 'Coronation Street' is only going to make me a better actor.

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Better, Actor, Going, Better Actor

I think because of my background - I went through university and did an academic career and fell into acting - I've never had a game plan for my career because I got into it quite ad hoc.

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Game, Career, Through, Ad

My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground.

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Feet, Big, Mates, Circle

I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.

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Business, School, Learned, Trade

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

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Work, Mind, Doing, Brits

The devil always has the better tunes!

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Better, Always, Tunes, Devil

America does not like people being not nice to dogs.

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Like, Being, Does, Dogs

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

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Play, Will, Most, Villains

If you rile a tiger, he's going to show his claws.

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Going, Claws, His, Tiger

Before 'Coronation Street,' I was a jobbing actor, and after it, I'm a jobbing actor again.

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Street, Actor, Before, Coronation

I've swam with great white sharks.

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Great, White, Sharks

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

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Doing, Think, I Think, Screen

You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.

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Normal, Buy, Characters, Behavior

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

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Succeed, Jobs, Even, Horrible

Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.

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Relationships, Sometimes, Guilty

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