Julie Walters movie quotes

“In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.”
Julie Walters

“- Miss McAdam: There is nothing wrong with soap. Soap was good enough for our Lord. I expect.
- Mrs. Kehoe: Well, which brand did he use, Miss McAdam? Does the Bible tell you that?”
Mary O'Driscoll - Miss McAdam
Julie Walters - Mrs. Kehoe

“Mrs. Bird-Actors are some of the most evil, devious people on the planet.
Mary Brown-Are they?
Mrs. Bird-They lie for a living.”
Julie Walters - Mrs Bird
Sally Hawkins - Mary Brown

“- Fernando Cienfuegos: You have the courage of a lion, the passion of a panther and the wisdom of a flamingo.
- Tanya: A flamingo's wise?
- Rosie: Let the man speak!”
Andy Garcia - Fernando Cienfuegos
Christine Baranski - Tanya
Julie Walters - Rosie

“- Rosie: I'm beginning to think my soul mate may actually be carbs.
- Tanya: Then mine must be wine.”
Julie Walters - Rosie
Christine Baranski - Tanya

“- Sheila: You need sunglasses. I read that if you don't have them on the beach this year people will talk about you.
- Mrs. Kehoe: [Witheringly] And what will they say, exactly, Sheila?
- Dolores: That's the thing, Mrs Kehoe. You'd never know, because they'd never say it to your face.”
Nora-Jane Noone - Sheila
Julie Walters - Mrs. Kehoe
Jenn Murray - Dolores

“I now see that giddiness is the eighth deadly sin. A giddy girl is every bit as evil as a slothful man, and the noise she makes is a lot worse.”
Julie Walters - Mrs. Kehoe

“- Rosie: [to Donna, holding up Tanya's underwear] Does she wear it or floss with it?
- Tanya: Floss you!
- Donna: Is it edible Tanya?”
Julie Walters - Rosie
Christine Baranski - Tanya
Meryl Streep - Donna

“- Dr. Frank Bryant: We split up, Rita, because of poetry.
- Rita: You what?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant
Julie Walters - Rita

“- Diana: It's not politics to talk about eye operations.
- Mrs. Kehoe: It is if the eyes belong to a politician.”
Eve Macklin - Diana
Julie Walters - Mrs. Kehoe

“You need to think carefully about your costume. It's the most Tony will ever have seen of you. You don't want to put him off.”
Julie Walters - Mrs. Kehoe

“- Rita: Have they sacked you?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: I made rather a night of it last night so they're giving me a holiday. Two years in Australia.
- Rita: Did you bugger the Bursar?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Metaphorically.”

Julie Walters - Rita
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant

“- Rita's Father: Married six years and you're not pregnant yet? How old are you now, Susan?
- Rita: I'm seventy-four, Dad.
- Rita's Father: You are not! You're twenty-seven. What's wrong with you? Here's your sister, married six minutes, and she's already four months pregnant!”
Godfrey Quigley - Rita's Father
Julie Walters - Rita

“- Rita: Are you a poet?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.
- Rita: What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: No. I stopped writing altogether.”
Julie Walters - Rita
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant

“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.”
Julie Walters

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

“- Rita: Right. I've passed. Now will you get on that bloody plane?
- Dr. Frank Bryant: Let me see. You've passed with distinction. I'm proud of you, Rita.
- Rita: I'm proud of both of us.”
Julie Walters - Rita
Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Frank Bryant

“- Rosie: Excuse me! Coming through! I have a senior citizen with me. Thank you. My mother needs a perch.
- Tanya: Mother? We're the same age!
- Rosie: Yeah. Well, parts of us are.”
Christine Baranski - Rosie
Julie Walters - Tanya

“- Tanya: [to Sophie] I bet you don't remember me.
- Rosie: Not with all that plastic surgery.”
Christine Baranski - Tanya
Julie Walters - Rosie

“- Rosie: Tanya and I will take them fishing.
- Tanya: Fishing? Oh, please!
- Rosie: What do you suggest we do with three men?
- Tanya: Well, then, now, that takes me back.”
Julie Walters - Rosie
Christine Baranski - Tanya

“Just because you can use magic now does not mean you have to whip your wands out for everything.”
Julie Walters - Mrs. Weasley

“- Rita: You didn't really mean to kill yourself. You were just...
- Trish: Just what, darling? Poor Susan. You think you've got everything, don't you?
- Rita: Trish, you have.
- Trish: Oh yes. When I listen to poetry and music, then I can live. You see, darling, the rest of the time it's just me. And that's not enough.”
Julie Walters - Rita
Maureen Diane Lipman - Trish

“- June: You could get a mortgage like other people!
- Buster: Do what?
- June: Borrow it from a bank.
- Buster: Well, I do borrow from banks, that is my job.
- June: I mean with their permission.”

Julie Walters - June
Phil Collins - Buster

- Customer in Hairdressers: What's that book you're reading, love?
- Rita: Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage".
- Customer in Hairdressers: Oh, my husband's got loads of books like that.
Marie Conmee - Customer in Hairdressers
Julie Walters - Rita

“- Rita's Father: If she was a wife of mine I'd drown her.
- Rita: If I was a wife of yours I'd drown myself.”
Godfrey Quigley - Rita's Father
Julie Walters - Rita