Julie Christie Quotes
"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Celebrity, Regret)
"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Mother, Being, Responsibility)
"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Politics, Now, Regret)
"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Life, Peace, Mind, Will)
"I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Talent, Acting, Nothing)
"I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Acting, Attention, World)
"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Cinema)
"I'd never been content in America."
- Julie Christie
(Related: America, Content)
"I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Love, Business, People, Advertising, Film, Integrity)
"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Marriage, People)
"It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Attention, Being)
"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Order)
"Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Men, Responsibility, Want)
"Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Love, Time, America, American)
"My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Family, Act, Jungle, Living, Tea)
"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."
- Julie Christie
(Related: People, Celebrity)
"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Life, First, Years)
"The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Children, Media)
"There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky."
- Julie Christie
"When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Age, Consciousness, Woman)
"I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Light, London)
"I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Men, Women, America, Inequality, Living)
"I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Women, Heaven)
"It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Time)
"Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Happiness, Absence, Suffering, World)
"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Children)
"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Film)
"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Attention)
"I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it."
- Julie Christie