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" I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" Debate is so much better than denial. "

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" 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. "

" I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters. "

" I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that. "

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" 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. "

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" It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything. "

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