Julian Fellowes Quotes

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Julian Fellowes

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 17, 1949

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

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There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.

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I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

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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.

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The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

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I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.

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What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.

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To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

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We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

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The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'

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Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

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Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

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I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

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People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

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In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

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Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

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I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

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What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'

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Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

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For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

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