Julie Walters Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

“I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.”

“The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.”