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Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.
— Julian Fellowes
We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.
— Julian Fellowes
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.
— Julian Fellowes
He was one of those who manage to combine almost total failure with breathtaking arrogance
— Julian Fellowes
CLARKSON: Are you fond of babies? VIOLET: Of course. CLARKSON: What's your favourite age? VIOLET: About sixteen.
— Julian Fellowes
Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?
— Julian Fellowes
You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.
— Julian Fellowes
Vulgarity is no substitute for wit
— Julian Fellowes
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.
— Julian Fellowes
corner of the Green Park and Piccadilly, Maria knew
— Julian Fellowes
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.
— Julian Fellowes
Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.
— Julian Fellowes
When grief is becoming, it is also suspect.
— Julian Fellowes
We all have chapters we would prefer unpublished.
— Julian Fellowes
I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
— Maggie Smith
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. — Julian Fellowes
it is better to be gullible than suspicious.
— Julian Fellowes
I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.
— Julian Fellowes
What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.
— Julian Fellowes
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
— Julian Fellowes
She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist.I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict. — Julian Fellowes
Love is like riding or speaking French. If you don't learn it young, it's hard to get the trick of it later.
— Julian Fellowes
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
— Julian Fellowes
I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.
— Julian Fellowes
If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
— Julian Fellowes
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.
— Julian Fellowes
In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.
— Julian Fellowes
If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.
— Julian Fellowes
Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith) — Julian Fellowes
I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?
— Julian Fellowes
Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.
— Julian Fellowes
To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.
— Julian Fellowes
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 ...
— Julian Fellowes
The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.
— Julian Fellowes
Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir. — Julian Fellowes
People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
— Julian Fellowes
I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World.
— Julian Fellowes
You know, I'm not a revolutionary.
— Julian Fellowes
One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell.
— Julian Fellowes
If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.
— Julian Fellowes
My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.
— Julian Fellowes
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.
— Julian Fellowes
Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.
— Julian Fellowes
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.'
— Julian Fellowes
The price of great love is great misery when one of you dies.
— 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
moment that the parents of one's friends choose to die or go to
— Julian Fellowes
I can be as contrary as I choose.
— Julian Fellowes
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
— Julian Fellowes
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.
— Julian Fellowes
I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.
— Julian Fellowes
I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
— Julian Fellowes
Harsh reality is always better than false hope.
— Julian Fellowes
We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.
— Julian Fellowes
The couple that never talk to each other never discover how little they have in common.
— Julian Fellowes
Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.
— Julian Fellowes
I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort
— Julian Fellowes
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.
— Julian Fellowes
One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.
— George Herbert
Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.
— Julian Fellowes
Violet, the Dowager Countess: 'I have plenty of friends I don't like.
— Jessica Fellowes
Sybil, vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
— Julian Fellowes
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.
— Julian Fellowes
We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.
— Julian Fellowes
War makes early risers of us all.
— Julian Fellowes
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.
— Julian Fellowes
Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.
— Julian Fellowes
You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
— Julian Fellowes
Most of us don't want to be outsiders.
— Julian Fellowes
How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe!
— John Aubrey
A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.
— Julian Fellowes
I just don't believe in generalisations.
— Julian Fellowes
Do you think he's the murderer?""It's worse than that
he's an actor! — Julian Fellowes
Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.
— Julian Fellowes
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.
— Julian Fellowes
Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming.
— Julian Fellowes
The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.
— Julian Fellowes
The '20s are a very interesting period to me.
— Julian Fellowes
She preferred to be at the receiving end of envy than pity.
— Julian Fellowes
Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.
— Julian Fellowes
I'm not romantic. But I shall think that the heart has other uses, rather than just pumping blood.
— Julian Fellowes
I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.
— Maggie Smith
Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.
— Julian Fellowes
Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.
— Julian Fellowes
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
— Julian Fellowes
It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?
— Julian Fellowes
You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.
— 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
If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.
— Julian Fellowes
The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.
— Julian Fellowes
Why do we spend so much of our lives making blameless people unhappy?
— Julian Fellowes
The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.
— Julian Fellowes
Violet, the Dowager Countess: I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.
— Jessica Fellowes
