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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with…

— Julian Fellowes

What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years…

— Julian Fellowes

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd…

— Julian Fellowes

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

— Julian Fellowes

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

“Very few Englishmen ever ask a woman anything about themselves. They choose instead to lecture their dinner neighbors on a new and…

— Julian Fellowes

War makes early risers of us all.

— Julian Fellowes

“The past, as we have been told so many times, is a foreign country where things are done differently.”

— Julian Fellowes

“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my…

— Julian Fellowes

I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice,…

— Julian Fellowes