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Julie Christie Biography

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress. An icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Christie appeared in six films that were ranked in the British Film Institute's 100 greatest British films of the 20th century, and in 1997 she received the BAFTA Fellowship.

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I'd never been content in America

America, Content

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

Advertising, Business, Integrity, Nice, People, Thinking

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

Constructs, Created, Order, Sell, Stardom

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.

Good, Mother, Responsibility, Think, Thinking

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

Brains, Children, Everything, Fry, Growing Up, Media

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.

Absence, Interesting, Suffering, Thinking, Way

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

Men, Responsibility, Want

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

Attention, Completely, Early, Embarrassing, Magazines, Saws

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

Beverly, Beverly Hills, Light, London, Matter, Stained

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.

Men, Responsibility, Sexiness, Think, Thinking

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

Cities, Exhilarating, Fog, Love, Moody, San Francisco

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.

Empowering, Heaven, Know, Things, Waiting, Women

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

Admiration, Celebrity, Enjoy, Might, People

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

Cinema, Faces, Good, Looks, Making, Used

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

Actresses, Attention, Hard, Like, Quite

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

Feminist, Film, Aspect, Films, Refused

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

Acting, Attention, Born, Center, Needs, World

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

Children, Tea, India, Said, Family

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.

Directors, Hands, Let, Tell, Told

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.

Away, Fabric, Loved, Person, Single Life, Years

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