178 Quotes by Julian Fellowes

In the States, the Abdication story, for example, is portrayed as The World Well Lost For Love while the English, of a certain type anyway, see it only as childish, irresponsible and absurd.

He was one of those who manage to combine almost total failure with breathtaking arrogance.

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.

If we don’t respect the past, we’ll find it harder to build a future.

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.

It’s the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

If you’re supposed to be a ‘personality,’ then you might as well have a personality.

Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn’t true.