178 Quotes by Julian Fellowes

I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else.

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.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

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.