Top 63 Quotes by 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 years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

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.

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.

Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.

There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you.

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.