British - Actress | February 22, 1950 -
I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.
Julie Walters
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I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.
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I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.
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I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.
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I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.
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I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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