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" I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group. "

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" I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean. "

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" That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world. "

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" The money isn't a lure. I've done very well out of this business. "

" 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. "

" I was having my teens in my 30s. "

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" Debate is so much better than denial. "

" 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? "

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" Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family. "

" It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed. "

" I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting. "

" The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird. "

" The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing. "

" My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back. "

" I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am. "

" Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. "

" 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. "

" I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up. "

" Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. "

" You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members. "

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" I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women. "

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" I wanted above all else not to be like my mum. "