Tag Archives: Julian Fellowes

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

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

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

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. Julian Fellowes

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. Julian Fellowes

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. Julian Fellowes

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 …

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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. Julian Fellowes

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. Julian Fellowes

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material. Julian Fellowes