Quotes by Julian Fellowes

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

— Julian Fellowes

Success

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

— Julian Fellowes

Friendship

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.

— Julian Fellowes

Life

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.'

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

— Julian Fellowes

Success

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.

— Julian Fellowes

Success

Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

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.

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

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.'

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

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.

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

— Julian Fellowes

Happiness

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.

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

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.

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

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

— Julian Fellowes

Success

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

— Julian Fellowes

Success

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

— Julian Fellowes

Life

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.

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

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.

— Julian Fellowes

Hope

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

Wisdom

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

— Julian Fellowes

Education

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.

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom

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

— Julian Fellowes

Life

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.

— Julian Fellowes

Wisdom