Julie Walters Quotes

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

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

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

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

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.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.

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.

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.

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.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

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

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

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.