Quotes About 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.

Anne Trenchard was a practical woman, and one of her chief virtues was that she did not linger over a disaster but sought, almost immediately, to remedy what could be remedied and to accept what could not.

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

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.

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

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

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.