128 Quotes by Julie Walters

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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