Julie Walters quotes

Julie Walters is a renowned British actress known for her versatile roles in film, television, and theatre. Audiences worldwide recognize her for memorable performances in works such as "Educating Rita," the "Harry Potter" series, and "Billy Elliot." She continues to be celebrated for her outstanding talent and contribution to the arts. Here are 52 of her quotes:

Debate is so much better than denial.

Julie Walters

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

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

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

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

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

Julie Walters

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

Julie Walters

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

Julie Walters

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

Julie Walters

You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

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I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

Julie Walters

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

Julie Walters

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

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

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

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.

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I was having my teens in my 30s.

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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

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

Julie Walters

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

Julie Walters

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

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

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