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• Debate is so much better than denial.

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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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• 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?

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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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• 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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• I don’t like being out of the crowd. It’s lonely within a group.

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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 didn’t come into the business to get awards or titles.

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• I don’t want to give up acting – it’s what I am.

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• I felt my mother about the place. I don’t think she haunts me, but I wouldn’t put it past her.

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

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• 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.

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• I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

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• I think comedy’s something you can’t learn. It’s an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

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• 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.

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

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• I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

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• I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men’s magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I’d ever heard.

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• I was having my teens in my 30s.

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Julie Walters (53)

Birth:	22nd February, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Novelist

About

Julie Walters is an English actress and novelist. She came to international prominence for playing the title role in Educating Rita. It was a role she had created on the West End stage, and it won her BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actress she also won an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance.

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