Julian Fellowes Quotes
Top 96 wise famous quotes and sayings by Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes Famous Quotes & Sayings
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CLARKSON: Are you fond of babies? VIOLET: Of course. CLARKSON: What's your favourite age? VIOLET: About sixteen.
I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.
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.
What does she do?"
"She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.
"She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.
She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist.
I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict.
I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict.
Love is like riding or speaking French. If you don't learn it young, it's hard to get the trick of it later.
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?
- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith)
- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith)
Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.
To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
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 ...
Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?
Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.
Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.
If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.
We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.
The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.
I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.
I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.
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.
The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.
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.
A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.
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.
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.