Film Quotes by Julian Fellowes

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

— Julian Fellowes

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

“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”

— Julian Fellowes

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

— Julian Fellowes

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

— Julian Fellowes

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…

— Julian Fellowes

“Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.”

— Julian Fellowes

“The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”

— Julian Fellowes

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

— Julian Fellowes

“How many of us, having cried bitter, rancid tears over a failed love, are actually disappointed when we discover, seeing the adored one again,…

— Julian Fellowes

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…

— Julian Fellowes

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

— Julian Fellowes

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

— Julian Fellowes

Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

— Julian Fellowes

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

— Julian Fellowes