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" 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

Love

Saying

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Julie Walters

Out

Within

" 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. "

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

" I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. "

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

" 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. "

" Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family. "

Julie Walters

Lovely

Film

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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 didn't come into the business to get awards or titles. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Debate is so much better than denial. "

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

Julie Walters

Give

Acting

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

Grass

Youth

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

" I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. "

Julie Walters

Mother

Past

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "