Julie Christie Quotes

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.

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

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.

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.

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.

I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for ... older people ... and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

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.