Quotes by Julian Fellowes

About Julian Fellowes:

Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford is a British actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, as well as a Conservative member of the House of Lords.
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marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.

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Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor!

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Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner. Elsie? -- She's gone. Oh, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead.

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If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

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Mr Weissman -- Tell us about the film you're going to make. Oh, sure. It's called "Charlie Chan In London". It's a detective story. Set in London? Well, not really. Most of it takes place at a shooting party in a country house. Sort of like this one,...

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[on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

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It is a truism but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.

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Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

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Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps ev...

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Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...

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Nor should they be, but everyone needs to feel they're part of something worthwhile. That, in the last analysis, their life has some meaning in a larger context. The questions is what am I part of? What have I done?

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Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and better route to the M5, or to praise their own professional achievements. So is a man does express any curiosity about ...

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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 ...

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

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

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Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

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

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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameJulian Fellowes
  • DescriptionEnglish actor, dramatist, director, novelist, producer and screenwriter
  • BornAugust 17, 1949
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Screenwriter; Film Director; Politician; Film Producer; Novelist; Writer; Librettist
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Writers Guild Of America Award; Primetime Emmy Award