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All Quotes by author - Julian Fellowes

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

" Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this... but when's dinner?' Each time I see it, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. It has a tremendous skill in developing all the subplots. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class. "

" I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality. "

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

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

" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

" I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance. "

" 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. "

" I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode. "

" I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the Old World. "

" I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair. "

" In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people. "

" I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off. "

" 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. "

" I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. "

" I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits. "

" 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. "

" I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed. "

" 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. "

" Most of us don't want to be outsiders. "

" 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. "

" My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. "

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