Julian Fellowes Quotes

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Julian Fellowes

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 17, 1949

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

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There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

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I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

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I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

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Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.

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One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell.

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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.

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The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.

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I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else.

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I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

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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.

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We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

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My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

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I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

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I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

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I just don't believe in generalisations.

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I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.

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Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

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Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this... but when's dinner?' Each time I see it, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. It has a tremendous skill in developing all the subplots.

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A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

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