Julie Christie
1941-|
Biography
Born in Chabua, Assam, India 
Julie Christie Quotes
“I think I’ve got something when I’m on screen, but that’s nothing to do with acting or talent.”“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.” “It’s quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don’t like attention.” “Very self-indulgent. I get a walloping satisfaction out of it.” “Suddenly you start to get these roles as the mother of the ingenue you’d have been playing five years ago - it happens in a very swift moment.” “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’d never been content in America.” “Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can.” “The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children’s brains and make them grow up maladjusted.” “He [John Schlesinger]’s in my family, and there’s not many directors of whom you can say that.” “All that concentrated adulation is terribly corroding.” “Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I’d cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.” “I regret that I wasn’t the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.” “I see stardom very clearly as a construct that’s been created in order to sell things.” “Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you’re going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.” “Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn’t particularly plan them.” “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.” “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.” “There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.” “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.” “I never will have peace of mind. I’m not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.” “I’m independent, strong, deterimined. I live off my nerves. I’m a sensualist. I enjoy pain and happiness and all the meotions.” “Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization.” “My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.” “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.” “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.” “I’m not exactly scared of marriage. It’s just that, looking around, it never works.” “I’ve never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.” “Men don’t want any responsibility, and neither do I.” “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.” “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.” “It takes me time to realize things; I’m a speedy person but a slow thinker.” “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.” “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.” “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 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.” |
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The Actress
Julie Christie has appeared in the following films:The Fast Lady (1962) Crooks Anonymous (1962) Billy Liar (1963) Young Cassidy (1965) Darling (1965) Doctor Zhivago (1965) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Petulia (1968) In Search of Gregory (1969) The Go-Between (1970) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Don’t Look Now (1973) Shampoo (1975) Demon Seed (1977) Heaven Can Wait (1978) Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) The Return of the Soldier (1982) Les Quarantièmes rugissants (1982) The Gold Diggers (1983) Heat and Dust (1983) Champagne amer (1986) Power (1986) Miss Mary (1986) Fools of Fortune (1990) The Railway Station Man (1992) Dragonheart (1996) Hamlet (1996) Afterglow (1997) The Miracle Maker (2000) Belphégor – Le Fantôme du Louvre (2001) No Such Thing (2001) Snapshots (2002) I’m with Lucy (2002) Troy (2004) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Finding Neverland (2004) The Secret Life of Words (2005) Away from Her (2006) I New York Love You (2008) New York, I Love You (2008) 1939 (2009) |
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