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" I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy. "

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" Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve. "

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

" 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'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? "

" My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want. "

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

" I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. "

" 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. "

" I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women. "

" 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. "

" I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live. "