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" 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. "

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" 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

God

Women

Today

" I was having my teens in my 30s. "

Julie Walters

Having

Teens

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

" I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape. "

" I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is. "

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

" 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. "

" I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend? "

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

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

" 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

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

" Debate is so much better than denial. "

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

" Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?' "

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

" 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. "

" We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Daughter

Time

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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