Julie Walters
Julie Walters
Julia Mary "Julie" Walters, CBEis an English actress and writer. She has won two BAFTA Film Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014. Walters first came to international prominence in 1983, for playing the title role in Educating Rita. It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. It also won her a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. She received a...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 February 1950
CityEdgbaston, England
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.
I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.
I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.
I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
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.
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'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.
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.
Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.
When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.
I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.
I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.