I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.
Julie Walters

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

I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.
Julie Walters

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.
Julie Walters

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

It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.
Julie Walters

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

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

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

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

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

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.
Julie Walters

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

The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.
Julie Walters