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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.
Julie Walters
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I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
Julie Walters
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I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.
Julie Walters
4.
There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.
Julie Walters
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Debate is so much better than denial.
Julie Walters
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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.
Julie Walters
7.
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
Julie Walters
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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
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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.
Julie Walters
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When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.
Julie Walters
11.
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
12.
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.
Julie Walters
13.
I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.
Julie Walters
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That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.
Julie Walters
15.
Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.
Julie Walters
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Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.
Julie Walters
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I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.
Julie Walters
18.
I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.
Julie Walters
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It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.
Julie Walters
20.
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
Julie Walters
21.
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
Julie Walters
22.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
Julie Walters
23.
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
24.
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
25.
I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.
Julie Walters
26.
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
27.
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
28.
I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.
Julie Walters
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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
30.
I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
Julie Walters
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Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.
Julie Walters
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In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.
Julie Walters
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I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
Julie Walters
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It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.
Julie Walters
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I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.
Julie Walters
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I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.
Julie Walters
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I can talk myself so much into my part.
Julie Walters
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I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.
Julie Walters
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You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.
Julie Walters
40.
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
41.
The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.
Julie Walters
42.
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
43.
I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.
Julie Walters
44.
We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring
Julie Walters
45.
I was having my teens in my 30s.
Julie Walters
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.
Julie Walters
