Top 63 Quotes by Julian Fellowes

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

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.

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.

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.