Quotes from Jonathan Bailey

Something about the genre of period drama feels so quintessentially British.

The day of my last A-levels, I took over from Andrew Garfield' in Beautiful Thing, and the thing that followed that was Side by Side' with Josie Walker.

I'd like to have been a pilot.

I think the idea of signing on to a sort of very commercial show and a show that is as expansive as this, that potentially could run and run, was something that I'd been wary of before, but reading Bridgerton,' it was a no brainer.

I'm watching The Singing Detective.' I'm rather taken by it.

You can love a play and character and can be the right person to tell that story. But if you don't click with the other people in the play, it won't work.

Lena Dunham has a very compelling face.

As a family, we were far too busy making mud pies and going to swimming galas, and mum was always working.

There is no bad.. nor good.. there just is.. and that is the present moment. How does that look.. depends on where you are along the journey.. Blink.. and the perception can change.

We've come quite far with the idea of equality between sexes, but there's still a lot of conversations that need to be had about men in power.

Let's unbutton the corsets and see what's really going on, I say.

I got taken to see Oliver!' by my Nana when I was five and I remember the experience so viscerally. And I just said to her, 'This is what I want to do!'

It's good that people have been surprised at the direction Broadchurch' has taken. That's what you want, to keep people guessing.

And I love a bath. I've had weeks where I've had a minimum of two a day.

I feel like it's probably very out of character for Anthony to break into song. I feel like he might play the flute or something, like a really weird European cinema moment where it gets really odd and he serenades his love in music. You never know with Bridgerton.'

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd love to be a primary school teacher.

I mean, I think all teachers are basically modern-day heroes.

Getting away from where you live and going to London is like the romantic ideal of ambition.

A blow-dry with no product leaves me looking like a Mongolian cushion.

Who wouldn't want to play a character whose bottom you get to know before the face?

It's so important to see everything through every gaze and the female gaze in terms of sex is not something we have seen much of. Let's reassert that balance!

I'm terrible at keeping secrets.

That's a testament to Shondaland who cast everyone off self-tapes. That creative instinct that they work through and they encourage everyone to go on is really empowering.

No, I'm alright for adventure. I will up the Thames in one of those Jacuzzi dingys.