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

— Julian Fellowes

Do you think he's the murderer?"" It's worse than that -- he's an actor!

— Julian Fellowes

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

— Julian Fellowes

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing...

— Julian Fellowes

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.

— Julian Fellowes

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

— Julian Fellowes

It is a truism, but it is still true that the longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether one liked them initially.

— Julian Fellowes

I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.

— Julian Fellowes

Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognizing only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit their right to respect in that environment ... There is no place in that town for the "interesting failure" or for anyone who is not determined on a life that will be shaped in an upward-heading curve.

— Julian Fellowes

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

— Julian Fellowes