Julie Walters Quotes

I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

I am a perfect case study for the transition from no maternal instinct to the love of motherhood.

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

When you go into mama-bear mode and have no choice but to just go with the flow, that's kind of when I realized...it put life into perspective. Just seeing my little girls and knowing I was going to experience life all over again - I'd be able to take them to the same things that my mom did - it was beautiful. When you become a mom, you gain this vulnerability that is so beautiful. Just the fact that I'm vulnerable but I'm never ashamed is so cool.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one.

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

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 want to be a mom who listens.

You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.

You hope that when you're playing someone possibly unsympathetic that you can bring them something redeeming, something people can hang onto.

I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine.

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective.

I want someone to look at me and find a little of themselves in me.

Motherhood is the most beautiful thing that can happen to a woman.