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

Julie Walters

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Julie Walters
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 22
Actor
Actress
Comedian
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Writer
Julia Mary Walters
Dame Julia Mary Walters
Daughter
Hell
Seeing
Keep
Mother
Bloody

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The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business.
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There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
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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.
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Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.
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Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
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I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.
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