Julie Walters Quotes (57 Quotes)


    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 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.

    We have great heart and good work ethic. They weren't ready to be done.

    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.

    The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.


    Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

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

    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.

    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'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.

    This isn't what we thought would be the outcome today. Today we kind of took a step backwards in our execution. When we create opportunities for good teams, they are going to finish them.

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

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

    We played some really strong competition and made a point to do some bonding during the experience. We weren't perfect, but we certainly played a lot better after that tournament.

    I was given the book to read first of all and I found it totally inspiring, arousing and very moving. I literally couldn't put it down. There is something intoxicating about Marie's belief, not just in herself, but in the children at the school and in humanity - we need that.

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

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


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

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

    John's been steady for us and has played his heart out. It is his senior year and I can't say enough good things about him.

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

    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.

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

    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 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.

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

    I'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.

    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.

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

    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 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.

    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.

    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.

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

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

    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'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.

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

    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.

    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.

    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 absolutely couldn't be more proud of this team. We've had quite a bit of adversity this year. The heart that they have demonstrated, the tenacity they developed their character as people this year.

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

    It's fabulous playing an actor. You're not going through her actors' hell, so it's quite nice to play it and look at it and have a laugh at it.


    My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.

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

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


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