Words matter. These are the best Julie Walters Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it’s really the place where you should always live.
There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women’s stories. God, the BBC’s practically run by women.
We have to take risks with art. If we don’t, it all becomes a bit boring.
The characters do have a life of their own; it’s weird.
It’s getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.
Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions – not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland – and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?
It’s very strong after the birth. It’s extraordinary. You can’t watch anything to do with kids being harmed.
It wasn’t being an alcoholic – it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
Debate is so much better than denial.
I don’t want to give up acting – it’s what I am.
I couldn’t watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.
Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.
I was having my teens in my 30s.
I’m massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don’t really realise that.
I’m more selective now I’ve got a family. I don’t want to work all the time. My daughter’s 12; I don’t want to miss out on her life. Soon she’ll be a teenager; she won’t want me around.
I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
The way I relax is I think, ‘I haven’t got anything coming up.’ I like to know there are months ahead when I’ve got nothing.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days – unmarried – was just unheard of.
I didn’t come into the business to get awards or titles.
I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
I think comedy’s something you can’t learn. It’s an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing – dreams of escape.
In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.
That’s why I’m an actress – escaping into a world.
Everyone comes up to me saying, ‘Cooee, Julie! Hello!’ as if I know them. Of course I don’t bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, ‘Ooh, love, go easy.’ For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.
