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" A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle. "
Julian Fellowes
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" 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. "
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" The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us. "
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" Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration. "
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" I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we? "
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" For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban. "
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" I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father. "
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" We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty. "
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" Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera. "
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" Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. "
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" 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. "
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" I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell. "
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" The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture. "
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" You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years. "
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" 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. "
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" If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts. "
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" If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality. "
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" My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations. "
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