Julie Walters Quotes

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Debate is so much better than denial.

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.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

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.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

I was having my teens in my 30s.

I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

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'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

I can talk myself so much into my part.

I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

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.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.