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All Julie Christie Quotes
I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.
Julie Christie
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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
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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
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The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.
Julie Christie
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I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.
Julie Christie
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Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
Julie Christie
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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
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It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.
Julie Christie
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I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
Julie Christie
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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
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Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.
Julie Christie
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There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.
Julie Christie
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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
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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
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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
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