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Julian Fellowes

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 17, 1949

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.

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You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

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I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World.

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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.

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There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you.

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My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

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What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two.

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You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

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To be honest, when you're running a series and you have an open end, you don't want to limit yourself too much with the choices you've got for a particular character.

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Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

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I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

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Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.'

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The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

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You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

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Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

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I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

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My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

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I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

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If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

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I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.

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