Julie Walters Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
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“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.”
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“I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.”
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“Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.”
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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.”
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“I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.”
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“There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'”
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“We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring”
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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.”
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“I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.”
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“Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.”
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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.”
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“In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.”
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“I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.”
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“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.”
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“I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.”
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“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.”
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“Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?”
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“I can talk myself so much into my part.”
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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.”
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