Julie Christie famous quotes

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

#Mind #Peace Of Mind #Way

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

#Children #Growing Up #Media

I don't think men see any lusty sexiness in me. The appealing thing is an air of abandonment. Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.
-- Julie Christie

#Responsibility #Men #Thinking

Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization
-- Julie Christie

#America #Issues #Periods

I'd never been content in America
-- Julie Christie

#America

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

#Order #Stardom #Constructs

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

#Intelligent #Men #America

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

#Mother #Responsibility #Thinking

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

#Integrity #Nice #Thinking

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

#Children #Tea #India

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

#People #Might #Admiration

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

#Years #Single Life #Fabric

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

#America #Time Passing #Affair

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

#Feminist #Film #Aspect

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

#Fog #Cities #San Francisco

Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.
-- Julie Christie

#Responsibility #Men #Want

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.
-- Julie Christie

#Realizing #Thinker #Persons

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

#Acting #Center Of Attention #Needs

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

#Thinking #Acting #Talent

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

#Light #Matter #Pavement

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

#Regret #Too Much #Kind

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

#Waiting #Heaven #Film

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

#Regret #Film #Turned Down

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

#Thinking #Interesting #Suffering

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

#People #Never Quit #Structure

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

#Cinema #Looks #Faces

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention
-- Julie Christie

#Attention #Actresses

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
-- Julie Christie

#Attention #Magazines #Saws

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

#Hands #Directors

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

#Children #Deals

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.
-- Julie Christie

#Thinking #People #Missing