Julian Fellowes
Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes (Baron Fellowes of West Stafford), DL. English actor, novelist, screenwriter, and director.
Fellowes is the youngest son of Peregrine Fellowes (a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie restored to his throne during World War II). Julian inherited the title of Lord of the Manor of Tattershall from his father, making him the fourth Fellowes to hold it. He was educated at Ampleforth College, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.
He played the part of Lord Kilwillie in the television series 'Monarch of the Glen.' Other notable acting roles included the part of Claud Seabrook in the acclaimed 1996 BBC drama serial 'Our Friends in the North.' He has twice notably portrayed George IV as the Prince Regent in the 1982 television version of 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' and the 1996 adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's novel 'Sharpe's Regiment.'
He wrote the screenplay for 'Gosford Park,' directed by Robert Altman, for which he won an Oscar for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen in 2002.
His novel 'Snobs' was published in 2004. It focused on the social nuances of the upper class. Fellowes has described himself as coming from the "rock bottom end of the top", and drew on his knowledge of Society to paint a detailed portrait of the behaviour and snobbery of the upper class. 'Snobs' was a Sunday Times Best Seller and has now been published in many countries.
In the 1970s he also wrote romantic novels, using the names Rebecca Greville and Alexander Morant.
He launched a new series on BBC One in 2004, 'Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder,' which he wrote and also introduced on screen.
He also penned the script to the current West End musical 'Mary Poppins,' produced by Cameron Mackintosh and Disney, which opened on Broadway in December 2006.
In late 2005 Fellowes made his directorial debut with the film 'Separate Lies.'
He is the presenter of 'Never Mind the Full Stops,' a panel-based gameshow transmitted on BBC Four from mid-2006.
On 28 April 1990, he married Emma Joy Kitchener (a Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Michael of Kent, and great-great-niece of the 1st Earl Kitchener) and assumed the name Kitchener-Fellowes by deed enrolled with the College of Arms in 1998.
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“We all have chapters we would prefer unpublished.”
“She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist.I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict.”
“Vulgarity is no substitute for wit”
“Dorința carnașă, acea stare necunoscută îndeosebi sub numele de ”îndrăgostire”, este un soi de demență. Este un soi de distorsionare a realități, dar atît de considerabilă încît ar trebui, pe drept cuvînt, sa se permită celor mulți dintre noi să întelegem celelalte forme de benunie și să manifestăm mai multa simpatie față de cei afectați de ele. Și cu toate acestea, știm cu toții , ea este o demență care, indiferent cît de aprinsă, rareori durează mult.”
“Cu toata că majoritatea oamenilor s-au simțit cît se poate de nefericiți in perioada cît au fost îndrăgostiți, aceasta este starea după care ființa umană tînjește mai presus de toate.”
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“Sigur, unul dintre adevărurile de bază ale vieții este că, in general, lumea te acceptă după cum te evaluezi singur.”
“Is my gardener's pride to be sacrificed on the altar of Mr Molesley's ambitions?- The Dowager Countess(Maggie Smith)”
“Great grief can be worn charmingly by a beauty and I have seen a lot of gracious dignity at funerals in my time but is my experience that when grief is becoming it is also suspect. Real unhappiness is ugly and wounding and scarring to the soul.”
“I don't mean to be rude'- always a precursor to rudeness of the most offensive sort”
“This phenomenon, where the losers of a revolution try to demonstrate their support for, and approval of, the changes that have destroyed them, always fascinates me.”
“In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.”
“Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?”
“Constance: Tell me, what happened to William's little maid? I never saw her again after that dinner.Mary Maceachran: Elsie? -- She's gone.Constance: Oh, it's a pity, really. I thought it was a good idea to have someone in the house who is actually sorry he's dead.”
“Do you think he's the murderer?""It's worse than that -- he's an actor!”
“If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.”
“Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.”
“Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.”
“Lady Sylvia McCordle: Mr Weissman -- Tell us about the film you're going to make.Morris Weissman: Oh, sure. It's called "Charlie Chan In London". It's a detective story.Mabel Nesbitt: Set in London?Morris Weissman: Well, not really. Most of it takes place at a shooting party in a country house. Sort of like this one, actually. Murder in the middle of the night, a lot of guests for the weekend, everyone's a suspect. You know, that sort of thing.Constance: How horrid. And who turns out to have done it?Morris Weissman: Oh, I couldn't tell you that. It would spoil it for you.Constance: Oh, but none of us will see it.”
“What does she do?""She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.”
“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 recognising 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 a upward-heading curve.”
“How little Americans know when they disparage acquaintanceship in favour of real, true friendship. It is in acquaintanceship, bringing wiht it as it does delicious dinners, comfortable weekends, gossip shared in picturesque surroundings, but no real intimacy, no responsibility, that the greatest charm of social intercourse lies.”
“To an outsider it seems a vital ingredient of many marriages that each partner should support the illusions of the other.”
“Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming.”
“She preferred to be at the receiving end of envy than pity.”
“It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty years of marriage.”
“The longer one knows people the less relevant it becomes whether or not one liked them initially.”
“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”
“Realization of a dream brings resentment in its wake.”
“When grief is becoming, it is also suspect.”
“Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.”
“You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.”
“What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.”