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" One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell. "

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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" 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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" You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. "

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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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" To be honest, when you're running a series and you have an open end, you don't want to limit yourself too much with the choices you've got for a particular character. "

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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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" Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going at the speed of a snail.' "

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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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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" There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Julian Fellowes

" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

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" The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms. "

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

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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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" There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category. "

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