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