Julie Walters Quotes - Page 3

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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 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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• 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'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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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