Julie Walters

We have great heart and good work ethic. They weren't ready to be done.

John's been steady for us and has played his heart out. It is his senior year and I can't say enough good things about him.

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

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

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.

I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person the public don't really realise that.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

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

I was having my teens in my 30s.

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

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

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

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

I can talk myself so much into my part.

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

This isn't what we thought would be the outcome today. Today we kind of took a step backwards in our execution. When we create opportunities for good teams, they are going to finish them.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

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