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" Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand? "
Questions
Service
Myself
" As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them. "
Birth
Start
Yourself
" Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before. "
Mother
Feel
Children
" Debate is so much better than denial. "
Much
Than
Denial
" Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes. "
Love
Me
Saying
" I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish. "
Women
Loved
Values
" I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that. "
Mind
I Can
Why
" I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up. "
Too Much
Animals
Strange
" I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles. "
Awards
Get
Titles
" I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting. "
Acting
Too Much
Think
" I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf. "
Love
Now
Think
" I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean. "
Ocean
Things
Know
" I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group. "
Out
Within
Like
" I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am. "
Up
Give
Acting
" I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. "
Mother
Past
Me
" I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell. "
Mother
Hell
Daughter
" I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend? "
Character
You
Play
" I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that. "
Public
Beautiful
Talented
" I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around. "
Daughter
Me
Time
" I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that. "
Young
Everybody
Like
" I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man. "
New York
Writing
Know
" I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre. "
Theatre
Really
Heroes
" I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did. "
Said
Strange
People
" In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail. "
Order
You
Fail
" I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is. "
Famous
Remember
Rich
" I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. "
Instinct
You
Think
" It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people. "
Yourself
You
Think
" It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older. "
You
Better
Getting Better
" It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen. "
Women
Daily
Change
" It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed. "
Birth
Watch
Strong
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