Julie Walters Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

I don`t want to give up acting - it`s what I am.

It`s very strong after the birth. It`s extraordinary. You can`t watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

I can talk myself so much into my part.

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.

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 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.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

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 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 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.

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 felt my mother about the place. I don`t think she haunts me, but I wouldn`t put it past her.

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

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 wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

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

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.

I don`t know if you can change things, but it`s a drop in the ocean.

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

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

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

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I`ve something to wear tomorrow.

I couldn`t watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

It`s bloody great to get to fifty-five. I`ve never been bothered about people knowing how old I am.

I don`t like being out of the crowd. It`s lonely within a group.

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

I was having my teens in my 30s.

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 think comedy`s something you can`t learn. It`s an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

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

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.

I`m massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don`t really realise that.

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

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

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.

I didn`t come into the business to get awards or titles.

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.

The money isn`t a lure. I`ve done very well out of this business.

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.