Quotes by Julian Fellowes - Page 2

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 / Actor
Enjoy It While It Lasts
Lasts
Lucky
Moments
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We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Crowds
Festivals
Nice
Night
Party
Avoid
Nights
Parties
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Envy
People
Thinking
Work Today People
Deadlines
Pile
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The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Beautiful
Dawn
Thinking
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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 / Actor
Agree
Modern World
People
Thinking
Views
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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 / Actor
Danger
Spring
Versatility
Extreme
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No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Humans
People
States
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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 / Actor
Gut
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What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Doe
Mean
Race
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I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Challenges
Play
Thinking
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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 / Actor
Be Careful
Careful
Goes On
Holiday
Lunch
Plenty
Sustainable
Dinners
Friendships
Whom
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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 / Actor
Giving
Observation
People
Thinking
Detailed
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I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Contemporary
Film Actors
Looks
Race
Thinking
Best Time World
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If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Ifs
Television
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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.'
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Snail
Speed
Thinking
Watches
Years
Favorite Shows
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My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Childhood
East
House
Successful
Tall
Teens
Mid
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Travel
Airports
Breakfast
Fever
Airport
Arrive
Disappeared
Lounge
Plane
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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 / Actor
Jobs
Cutting
Film Industry
Funding
Insecure
Cuts
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School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Work
Careers
School
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One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Dating
People
Real
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Drama
Mixture
Ours
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Backgrounds
Different Backgrounds
Disapproval
Father
Mother
Parent
Mother Father Parents
Father Parents Mother
Grander
Relations
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Choices
Limit
To Be Honest
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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 / Actor
Nonsense
Prepared
Hopes
Limb
Section
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Clinging
Frightened
Latter
Nervous
Strong Women
Vines
Weak
Men Women I Am
Category
Women Men I Am
Nurtured
Some Men
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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 / Actor
Nobility
Include
Mistakenly
Nowadays
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Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Friends
Confusing
Mistake
People
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
America
Maximum
Three
Years
Agent
Standard
Sign
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Abbey
Oppressed
Versus
Weight
Love People Nothing
Downton Abbey
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There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Drawing
Library
Thinking
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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 have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Boundaries
Florence
Louis
Circumstance
Napoleon
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Britain
History Great People
Centuries
Guardians
Houses
Local
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Doors
Good Always I Am
Anticipating
Go For It
Opened
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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 / Actor
Christmas
Smile
Car
Burning
Character
Huge
Soap
Soap Operas
Special
General
Buildings
Operas
Quantities
Rails
Slamming
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In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Memories
Past
People
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Breakfast
Spoil
Time Long Important
Bear
Everything Else
Guest
Invite
Newspaper
Otherwise
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I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Better Off
Dislike
Frightened
Impression
Obligation
Dealt
Simplistic
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Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this... but when's dinner?' Each time I see it, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. It has a tremendous skill in developing all the subplots.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Confidential
Developing
Dinner
Time Moment Long
Tremendous
Discover
Each Time
Noticed
Skill
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What's difficult for American audiences is that they're used to a system here where you can get an actor for five years or even seven, and that is signed for at the audition. Whereas in England, no agent will give you an actor for more than three years.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Auditions
Giving
Years
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Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Artist
Believe
Pain
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Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: “PLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!”
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Emotional
Noble
One Day
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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.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Dislike
Grey
Real Life
Straightforward
Operate
Parable
Presents
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Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Powerful
Real
Unique
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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.'
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Give Me
Little Man
Mad
Minutes
Ought
Asked
Diary
Marry
Introduced
Later
Rat
Telephone
Telephone Number
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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."
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Men
Numbers
Party
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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 / Actor
Ashamed
Belief
Horrible
Mean
Nasty
People
Temper
Thinking
Waking
Best Done People
Waking Up
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He's lived a fiction. And, of course, he thinks that if you love someone enough, they will love you. And that if you steer things enough, things will, under your control, come right. And this is the fiction of the controller: a controller thinks that they can control their life into being what they want it to be. But their life will never be what they want it to be until they stop controlling, and that is their journey.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Journey
Love You
Thinking
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Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.
Julian Fellowes / Actor
Being In Love
Passion
Reality
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