Quotes By 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.

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.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.

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.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

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

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