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Julie Walters Quotes

30 quotations by Julie Walters

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

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

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

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

QuoteMy 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.Quote

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

QuoteI'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.Quote

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

QuoteI'm too old to be learning stuff, really. I spent weeks and weeks on that tiny bit of dance. Had it been slow stuff, it would've been easy.Quote

QuoteI'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.Quote

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

QuoteI'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.Quote

QuoteI'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.Quote

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

QuoteI'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job.Quote

QuoteI was having my teens in my 30s.Quote

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

QuoteI wanted above all else not to be like my mum.Quote

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

QuoteI 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.Quote

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

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

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

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

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

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

QuoteI 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.Quote

QuoteI can talk myself so much into my part.Quote

QuoteI 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.Quote

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