Julie Walters Quotes

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Julie Walters

Great, Understand, Why

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

Change, Ocean, Drop

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.
Julie Walters

Age, Yourself, Give

Debate is so much better than denial.
Julie Walters

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

Lonely, Group, Within

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.
Julie Walters

Mother, Pain, Emotional

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.
Julie Walters

Women, Mother, Father

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.
Julie Walters

Men, Thought, Heard

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.
Julie Walters

Love, Another, Film

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

Woman, Able, Days

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

Why, Actress, Escaping

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

Life, Weird, Characters

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?
Julie Walters

Service, Able, Question

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.
Julie Walters

Yourself, Understand, Become

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.
Julie Walters

Love, Funny, Time

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.
Julie Walters

Mind, Understand, Why

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

Strange, Watch, Cruelty

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

Business, Awards, Titles

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

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

Mother, Past, Put

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

Mother, Hell, Keep

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

Acting, Theatre, Heroes

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.
Julie Walters

Family, Famous, Saying

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

Learn, Rather, Makes

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

Else, Wanted, Above

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Nationality: British

Born: February 22, 1950

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