A biography for Julie Waltershasn’t been written yet.
“I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.”
“In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.”
“I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.”
“I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.”
“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.”
“The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.”
“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.”
“I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was having my teens in my 30s.”
“I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.”
“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.”
“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.”
“That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.”
“We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.”
“I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.”
“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.”
“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 don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.”