Quotes

Quotes about, regarding, and from the mouths of Warren and Julie.

On Each Other:

"I'm terribly dependant on him, like a baby to it's mother, so we travel backwards and forward to be with each other." -Julie

"She is truly one of the greatest actresses in the history of film, I feel honored to share the screen with her." -Warren

"He has this incredible drive and ambition when he makes a film, although I don't think he was born with it, I think it is something he has learned over time." - Julie

"What drew me to her onscreen was her energetic intelligence and refusal to rely on her good looks." - Warren

"I wouldn't want to love me, but luckily for me, Warren  does." -Julie

"She's my treasure, I get more rewards from her than I could get from a million Oscars." -Warren

"I think his greatest achievement is his fantastic wife and his four beautiful children, we talk often and I'm very fond of him, he is one of my oldest and dearest friends." -Julie

"Looking back at it now, it seems that all the odds were stacked against her. She was too beautiful, too malleable, too celebrated, too mixed-up, too much loved. But she refused to be anything off of a conveyor belt, she moved faster than any conveyor belt, and she survived. No Svengali, real or imagined, can hold hold her back now, she is her own person completely." -Warren in 2001

"He broke taboos in the industry regarding sex, race, gender, and he set a template for a whole new genre of film making. He was so bold and so intelligent, he actually outsmarted Hollywood." -Julie, in her tribute to Warren at the Oscars in 2000

"I remember the first time I saw her, I thought she had the most wonderful face. She was the most beautiful, and at the same time the most nervous person I'd ever met. She was deeply and authentically left-wing and making this huge fuss over royalty did not amuse her." -Warren on his and Julie's first meeting at Buckingham Palace

"We've talked about marriage and about having children, but I don't suppose we'll get married soon, we're so happy as we are. I'll never want anyone but Warren." -Julie

"If we ever split up, I'll pay her alimony, that's if she ever wants or needs it." -Warren

"Everybody claims they know Warren so well, but they don't. He's painfully shy. I suppose nobody will ever know him because he doesn't really know himself." -Julie

"Julie is like, for me, what in basketball you'd call a franchise. For me, she's a franchise. She just fascinates me. I can't think of anything without thinking of Julie. She just interests me." -Warren

"I had access to politics through Warren, and power. He opened a door for me that has never shut and understanding power and politics is something that I am eternally grateful to him for." -Julie

"She's probably the kindest person I've ever met, she's beautiful by all your conventional standards, and I admire her work, so it is no surprise that I love her." -Warren

"He constantly tells me that no matter what I do he'll always be right behind me. That's quite reassuring to know that someone is willing to fall flat on their face with you." -Julie

"We don't live any differently than married people, it's just that we haven't ever married. We've been together for ten years, we are married!" -Warren

"She's almost pathalogically honest, she'll tell you exactly what she thinks with the clarity and directness of an arrow. It hurts but it's valuable. She saves me from my vanity." -Warren

"She is my superior half. I now seperate my life into two sections, before Julie and with Julie." -Warren

"We may have a successful production company but in a few years our greatest productions will be the ones jumping into bed with us at five in the morning." -Warren

 

Julie:

"There's nothing about Julie that's not to be liked." -Diane Keaton

"Only a woman with Julie's unbreakable spirit would turn her back on Hollywood at the height of her career." -Robert Altman

"Julie Christie was my first true friend in the business, we met back when we were doing Hamlet and I was a complete unknown. She was wonderful, you could trust her completely. Hamlet was ten years ago and we're still close, she is always telling me how proud she is of me, and that really means a lot." -Kate Winslet

"I love her, it was tremendous to work with her. She's so beautiful and warm and stunning, you just want to take her in your arms and hug her, she just has this indescribable quality to her. When I first met her, I instantly fell in love with her as a person. She's this warm, crazy, eccentric, incredibly loving person." -Marc Forster, director of Finding Neverland

"If ever a movie star existed for whom stardom meant nothing, it was Julie. She was genuinely a blithe spirit." -Screenwriter Robert Towne

"She is the most loveable creature I have ever known, and she makes for a steadfast friend." -Terence Stamp

"Julie Christie is Lara. She is fresh out of the book. I know of no other actress who could have played the part. I enjoyed working with Julie tremendously." -director David Lean

"She refused to be the product of a movie studio, she didn't need to be styled, she just sort of shone. Julie is wonderful, I couldn't wish for a better friend." -Catherine Deneuve

"Julie is amazing, I cannot say enough good things about her." -director Joseph Losey

"She is a completely non-vain woman. She doesn't have an ounce of vanity to her name." -Mike Nichols

"She is the most poetic of all actresses." -Al Pacino

"She has authentic charm. Most people simply have nice manners." -Jack Nicholson

"Julie is a lovely girl. I love her, I wish she had done more, she should have done more. It was my good fortune, during that wonderful summer making Zhivago, to be the first of her screen fellows, to hold out my hand and help her keep her balance as she did her spins and pirouettes. Everyone shook their heads and didn't know what to think of her, she was such a slave to her shyness, so I was one of the lucky few to whom she would open up to. I learned a lot from my young co-star, I have worked with many a Hollywood star, but none have been as real or as courageous as Julie Christie. Those months were some of the best I have ever spent making movies." -Rod Steiger

"Julie has a good heart - none of the mean or petty characteristics that you see all too often in this business. I liked her a lot; in fact, I loved Julie. It was easy to love her." -Sir Alan Bates

"In a cruel and imperfect world, she is living proof that God can still create perfection in both the body and the soul." -critic Rex Reed

"Julie makes my soul fly. She opens me up to beautiful feelings." -Mike Nichols

"She is an actress with a quality no other actress has: a curious combination of lady and pixie. She was a joy to work with - enormous talent and no ego." -George C. Scott

"Julie Christie is smart and honest and strong for what she believes in. We made a deal, she was supposed to teach me how to dress, and I was supposed to teach her how to cuss. Neither of us succeeded. Nevertheless, my love and admiration for Julie is boundless." -Shirley Maclaine

"Julie is a true activist, so there is absolutely nothing she can do that would surprise me." -Emma Thompson

"She is a new breed of actress, she is neither flashy nor extravagant. She is kind and gentle and eager to learn." -director Francois Truffaut

"Over the years I have worked with some incredible people, but it was a sheer pleasure to work with Julie Christie. Although she is very small, she seemed to me to be just like an unbridled horse. She was a kind, loving, majestic, free-spirited, incredibly generous girl who was always willing to be anybody's best friend." -Richard Chamberlain

"Working with Ms. Christie was a revelation for me, there is something about her that I cannot even begin to describe. God kissed her on the cheek." -Sir Derek Jacobi

"She is an incomparable little thing. She feels like family, I get terribly jealous of other directors with whom I have to share her with." -director John Schlesinger

"I had been wanting to work with her for a long time. Her performances are spellbinding. You can always relate to her, and with those sad eyes, you instantly feel the need to protect her." -Sidney Lumet

"Julie Christie is someone who never wanted fame, money, or even success. Her goal was to learn everything she possibly could about the world, her passion was to help those who couldn't help themselves. She is a woman whose sparkling spirit and massive heart I admire. She was called the Katharine Hepburn of her generation. With all due respect Ms. Hepburn, Ms. Christie is far too fabulous to ever be you." -Michael Caine, presenting Julie with the BAFTA Fellowship award

"She faces everything with immense courage, courage that I wish I had only a small part of. You will never find her tiptoing around the edges of anything, she always jumps in head first." -Warren Beatty

"Julie Christie has a quality that I find very admirable, she is a star with enormous talent, yet she evades every aspect of stardom." -Dustin Hoffman

"Julie Christie, the beguiling Brit with the sad eyes and broken smile, whose unquestionable talent and bohemian spirit has been enchanting us for decades." -Roger Ebert

"She is a natural-born rebel, you can see it her uncanny performances, and in her undying support for what she believes in." -Goldie Hawn

"Julie is constantly on the quest for knowledge. John Huston once told me that if you've got curiosity, you've got life. If that's true, Julie will be around forever." -Robert Towne

"The world would be a better place if there were more Julie Christies in it, but luckily, she's an original." -Nicole Kidman

"Julie has no desire to be a star, all she wants is to act, this is very genuine with her. Hollywood and stardom disgusts her, she refuses to be bound by it's rules. Julie is and always will be ... the best. There is nobody I respect or admire more." -Robert Altman

"Julie is such a little lady, a real lady, with those lovely English manners and that adorable little accent of hers. Of all of Warren's girlfriends, Julie was definitely our favorite. Warren used to bring her to visit us all the time, and when Warren was away working she would fly to see us whenever she could. She makes Warren so happy and we really love her too, so there is no one else we would want to become our daughter in-law. We think Warren may marry her and it would make us really happy if he did, but if they decide not to marry, thats okay too, just as long as they're happy. Julie's so funny, she's always making us laugh, and that hair of hers, it's always hanging in her eyes, but she always looks so beautiful. We will always have a soft spot for Julie, and she will always be a part of our family." -Kathlyn and Ira Beatty

"I am someone who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. I am so grateful to those who have helped me along the way, and who, by all means, should be standing up here with me," -Julie Christie, 1971 Oscar acceptance speech

"Fame and success is like reaching an important birthday and finding that you are exactly the same."

"I am not what you call a pretty girl, my mother called me an ugly duckling, but I guess I have a few good features."

"I make for a horrible movie star, I can't bear attention, but I'm not quite qualified to be anything else."

"I wasn't born with an enormous need for affection, just an enormous need to give it."

"I simply cannot understand why a person would want to harm a living thing whose only crime is to have been born non-human." -on animal rights

 

Warren:

"Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch."

"My notion of a wife at forty, is that I should be able to trade her, like a bank note, for two twenties."

"I would rather ride through a snowstorm naked, on a camel's back than give what is called an "in-depth" interview."

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."

"Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer."

"Marriage requires a special talent, like acting, but monogamy, that requires genius."

"When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America."

"Time is like ice cream. I love ice cream. I eat it all the time."

"Sucess is only a matter of hanging on when others have let go."

"Politicians are wonderful just as long as you keep them away from things they don't understand, like the notion of working for a living."

"Hollywood is a town where they shoot far too many movies and not nearly enough actors."

"In the past few weeks I have been completely flummoxed by those reporters who try to disgrace my record by printing stories of my endless liaisons with women. All I  can say is that I am truly thankful to them for further proving that I am presidential material."

"Jack unfortuneately couldn't be with us tonight. He's busy attending the birth of his next girlfriend." -replacing Jack Nicholson as a presenter at the 1998 Oscars