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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 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. "

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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two. "

" I just don't believe in generalisations. "

Julian Fellowes

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community. "

" Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness. "

" You know, I'm not a revolutionary. "

" 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.' "

" We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them. "

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

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

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

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

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

" When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material. "

" 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. "

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

Julian Fellowes

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