English - Actor | August 17, 1949 -
To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.
Julian Fellowes
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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.
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Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration.
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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.
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What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.'
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Most of us don't want to be outsiders.
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For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.
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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.
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