Top 60 Julie Walters Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.”

— Julie Walters

2. “Debate is so much better than denial.”

— Julie Walters

3. “Shakespeare – it’s not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it’s meant to be funny it’s not funny.”

— Julie Walters

4. “I’ve never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.”

— Julie Walters

5. “My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.”

— Julie Walters

6. “I felt my mother about the place. I don’t think she haunts me, but I wouldn’t put it past her.”

— Julie Walters

7. “I don’t want to give up acting – it’s what I am.”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

10. “I don’t know if you can change things, but it’s a drop in the ocean.”

— Julie Walters

11. “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.”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

13. “I couldn’t watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.”

— Julie Walters

14. “We have to take risks with art. If we don’t, it all becomes a bit boring.”

— Julie Walters

15. “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.”

— Julie Walters

16. “I’m interested in politics, what’s going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.”

— Julie Walters

17. “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.”

— Julie Walters

18. “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.”

— Julie Walters

19. “There were people asking ‘Can women be funny?’ People still ask that. It’s like asking: ‘Can women breathe in and out?’”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

21. “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.”

— Julie Walters

22. “I’m too young at 50. I’m not grown up yet. There’s part of everybody like that.”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

24. “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.”

— Julie Walters

25. “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.”

— Julie Walters

26. “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.”

— Julie Walters

27. “As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.”

— Julie Walters

28. “I didn’t come into the business to get awards or titles.”

— Julie Walters

29. “I’m massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don’t really realise that.”

— Julie Walters

30. “I think comedy’s something you can’t learn. It’s an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

32. “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.”

— Julie Walters

33. “I can talk myself so much into my part.”

— Julie Walters

34. “Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won’t necessarily be blockbusters.”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

36. “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.”

— Julie Walters

37. “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.”

— Julie Walters

38. “Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions – not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland – and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

40. “Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it’s like a family.”

— Julie Walters

41. “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.”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

43. “I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult’s point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.”

— Julie Walters

44. “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.”

— Julie Walters

45. “The characters do have a life of their own; it’s weird.”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

47. “I’d love to be in another film, but they haven’t asked me. I think it’s a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.”

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

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

— Julie Walters

50. “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.”

— Julie Walters