Julie Christie

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

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

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.