Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

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

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

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

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

" I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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 was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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