Julian Fellowes Quotes

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

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.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

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

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

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

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.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

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

I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.

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

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

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.

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?