Top 20 Julie Christie Quotes

I basically put myself into directors’ hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it’s an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

I remember becoming aware of women’s issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

I’ve never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

I’d never been content in America.

I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren’t used; in London, they’re used for everything. It doesn’t matter how much they’re cleaned, they still reflect light.

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don’t know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I’m not going to say what they were.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn’t have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

I think I’ve got something when I’m onscreen, but that’s nothing to do with acting or talent.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you’re going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I’m not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity.

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn’t particularly plan them.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that’s been created in order to sell things.

I don’t think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It’s a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

It takes me time to realize things; I’m a speedy person but a slow thinker.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children’s brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I regret that I wasn’t the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.