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Julian Fellowes
English
Actor
Born:
Aug 17
,
1949
About
People
Think
World
You
Your
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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
You
Enjoy
Lasts
More
Never
Than
While
Your
Moment
Lucky
In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.
Julian Fellowes
You
People
Care
Drama
About
End
In The End
Successful
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
Good
Will
Doors
Seem
Through
Never
Had
Opened
Does
Always
Am
Go
Go For It
Been
Anticipating
Walking
Any
Quite
Happen
Plan
Next
Ever
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
You
First
Understanding
Hell
Think
Gut
About
Make
Got
Material
Lot
Your
Film
Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.
Julian Fellowes
Success
Thoughts
Everyone
Consideration
Worthy
Means
Your
What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'
Julian Fellowes
History
You
Light
Drama
About
Period
Understand
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
Class
Nowadays
Fact
Nobility
Come
Mistakenly
Essentially
In Fact
Which
Used
Include
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
Great
History
People
Guardians
Local
Our
Area
Houses
Built
Been
Families
Just
Them
Centuries
Us
Worked
Much
Who
Lived
Britain
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
Obligation
Better
Live
Think
Worse
Those
Kind
Better Off
Simplistic
Course
Dealt
Off
Impression
Frightened
America
Get
Mean
Dislike
Who
Most of us don't want to be outsiders.
Julian Fellowes
Outsiders
Most
Want
Us
For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
Julian Fellowes
Welcome
Member
About
Directors
Most
Taliban
Set
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
Mother
Father
Parents
Relations
Backgrounds
Had
Put
Disapproval
Came
Up
Than
Different
Different Backgrounds
Grander
We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.
Julian Fellowes
Liberty
Think
Way
Rules
Some
Like
Really
You know, I'm not a revolutionary.
Julian Fellowes
You
Know
Revolutionary
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
Best
People
Own
Think
Side
Bad
Temper
Horrible
My Own
Never
Feel
Most
Nasty
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Trying
Done
Fiction
Anything
Ashamed
Mean
Belief
The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.
Julian Fellowes
Culture
Country
House
Icon
Certainly
English
British
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
Julian Fellowes
Success
Me
Predict
Delightful
Absolutely
Never
Since
Surprise
Success Is
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
Character
You
Yourself
Too Much
To Be Honest
Too
Running
Open
Particular
Limit
Got
End
Want
Much
Choices
Series
Honest
Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.
Julian Fellowes
Happiness
Nothing
Than
Harder
I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.
Julian Fellowes
Love
Sex
Seen
Every
Think
Sex And The City
City
Episode
I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.
Julian Fellowes
Every
Think
Some
Something
Except
Merits
Period
Century
I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.
Julian Fellowes
World
Think
Changed
Television
American
American Television
Series
Reinvention
Of course I love winning things; I can't tell you how much I enjoy it.
Julian Fellowes
Love
You
Enjoy
Tell
Winning
Course
How
How Much
Much
Things
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
Time
Long
Long Time
Important
Reading
Breakfast
Other
Else
Otherwise
Guest
Everything
Everything Else
Bear
Take
Spoil
Invite
Over
Like
Talk
Talker
Another
Very
Newspaper
Each
Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.
Julian Fellowes
Work
Problem
Sometimes
Mother
Say
Would
Weekend
Hijacked
Gets
Right
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
Work
Today
People
Envy
Think
Deadlines
Pile
Huge
Up
Going
Who
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