178 Quotes by Julian Fellowes

What you have to understand about period drama is that it’s ’history light.

You never know people, do you? You can work with ’em for twenty years; you don’t know ’em at all.

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.

She wasn’t sure if they meant to be hurtful or if they were just profoundly tactless.

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.

What’s difficult for American audiences is that they’re used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.

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

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

Of course I love winning things; I can’t tell you how much I enjoy it.