#act

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

— Julie Walters

#escaping #i #into #why #world

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

— Julie Walters

#life #own #their #weird

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am. ↗

— Julie Walters

#am #give #i #i am #up

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

— Julie Walters

#any #had #heroes #i #never

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting. ↗

— Julie Walters

#going #i #life #like #me

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? ↗

— Julie Walters

#character #fat #friend #goes #happened

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen. ↗

— Julie Walters

#age #any #better #business #change

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. ↗

— Julie Walters

#appealing #being #case #engaged #everything

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women. ↗

— Julie Walters

#baby boomers #bbc #boomers #editors #education

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. ↗

— Rob Walton

#army #camps #companies #concentration #dupont