128 Quotes by Julie Walters

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.

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.

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

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.

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.

I'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job.

I absolutely couldn't be more proud of this team. We've had quite a bit of adversity this year. The heart that they have demonstrated, the tenacity; they developed their character as people this year.