178 Quotes by Julian Fellowes

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

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

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

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

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 it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”

Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.