Jason Watkins

I was told at the age of 20 that the work would start really coming in when I was 40, and it's true.

The idea of satirising oneself is a very bold move.

I've done something like 80 different shows and a few films along the way. They tend to be supporting characters so I don't tend to get the publicity spotlight thrust on me.

It's really heartbreaking that as our daughter Betty grows up she hasn't got her sister to grow up with and all the things Betty is doing Maud won't be able to do.

We are an imperfect family who have survived the worst thing that can happen to a parent.

Am I a raging monarchist? I suppose I'm a pragmatist and would say that this is a society where we have a royal family and we have to... that's the way it is.

I love doing television and I'm populist in that way. But that doesn't mean I don't have an agenda about what I think is quality and what is important in society.

One can contribute to the issues of the day in quite a subtle way sometimes. It doesn't have to be dogmatic.

When I'm getting ready for a part, the makeup artist will often say something like: 'Oh, you don't seem the type for a tattoo.'

Losing a child is totally overwhelming: you have no idea how you are going to carry on, how you will look after your other children, and how you will keep your marriage together. But, however desperate you are feeling, there are always ways in which you can get help, and ways you can find to get through it.

When your child dies, it's like this massive red dot in front of you. And as time goes on, it's still right there in front of you, but it gets smaller. But the thing you know is, it's always going to be there; it will never disappear, and that's the right way and the only way for things to be.

I used to be able to sprint. I used to be able to run on my hands.

It's always an exciting prospect when you're reading a script and you're almost starting to speak, you're almost reading out loud very early on in a script, because you think: 'Well, I want to do this.'

I'm a fan of the BBC, and have worked there on many projects.

I don't look like Brad Pitt. And you know, I'm fine with that and so is Brad, which makes it rather a win-win situation all round.

If my imagination is fired by something I will tirelessly practise it to the best of my ability to the point of obsession.

I love the BBC!

Harold Wilson is a significant and fascinating character in our history.

The Crown' is a dramatisation based on fact. It isn't a documentary. If it were, you wouldn't get Peter Morgan's writing and you wouldn't get the Royal Family's interior lives.

Once you open up, there are so many people wanting to connect and share.

When something traumatic has happened in your family, you're immediately empathetic to many, many comparable situations of loss.

You can't feel guilty about being happy, because you have to be happy for your family and yourself.

I think the important thing is you're able to function as a parent to your other children, if you're lucky enough to have more children, and you're able to cope with the world and work. When you're in the trauma of losing a child, you can't imagine that that will ever be the case.

I've been in plays that have been freely adapted from Shakespeare, and sometimes one's wary of those.

If we had been doing Shakespeare in doublet and hose for the past 500 years, it might have disappeared.