Julian Fellowes Quotes
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.
If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.
Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.
I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.
I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.
Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.
What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.
Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.
No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.
My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.
If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.
The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.
If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.
School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?
One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.