Julie Walters Quotes
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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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I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
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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.
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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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I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
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I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.
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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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Debate is so much better than denial.
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I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.
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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.
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I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.
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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 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 never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
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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.
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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.
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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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I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.
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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.
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I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.
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The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.
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I was having my teens in my 30s.
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I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
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Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.
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I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.
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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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We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring
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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.
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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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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.
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