Julie Walters Quotes (57 Quotes)

I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?

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

I'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.

Both my parents died from smoking, so yes, I absolutely agree with the policy. It's nice for me not to have to worry about secondhand smoke here anymore.

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

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

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