Julie Walters Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Julie Walters

  Done, Shooting, Awful

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

  Julie Walters

  People, Achieve, Difficult

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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

  Julie Walters

  Mum, Wanted

  "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

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• 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.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, Relax, Way

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• 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

  Animal, Watches, Too Much

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• 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.

  Julie Walters

  Drama, Interesting, Television

  "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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

  Julie Walters

  Lonely, Groups, Crowds

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• I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.

  Julie Walters

  Children, Writing, Views

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• 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.

  Julie Walters

  Hands, People, World

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• 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

  People, Literature, Actresses

  "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

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• 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?

  Julie Walters

  Character, Phones, Play

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• 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.

  Julie Walters

  Mother, Daughter, Teenager

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• 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

  Thinking, Pressure, Hello

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• 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.

  Julie Walters

  New York, Writing, Reality

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• There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

  Julie Walters

  Baby, Retirement, Way Forward

  "Julie Walters criticises lack of roles for older female actors" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2012.

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

  Julie Walters

  Real, Thinking, Acting

  “Julie Walters: 'Who cares about getting old?'” by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2017.

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• 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

  Thinking, Campaigns, Doing Me

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• 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

  Kids, People, Birth

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• Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

  Julie Walters

  Retirement, Home, Opportunity

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• 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, Children, Pain

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• 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.

  Julie Walters

  Mother, Brother, Home

  "My family values" by Hilary Whitney, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2009.

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

  Julie Walters

  Bits

  "Bafta TV special/Julie Walters: Queen of the screen". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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

  Julie Walters

  Escaping, World, Actresses

  "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". Interview with James Mottram, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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

  Julie Walters

  Character

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• 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

  Mother, Father, Women

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