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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. "

Julian Fellowes

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" The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.' "

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

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

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

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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 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. "

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" The '20s are a very interesting period to me. "

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

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

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

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

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" My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible. "

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