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" You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members. "
Julie Walters
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" 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. "
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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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" Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live. "
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" I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her. "
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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. "
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" I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that. "
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" I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre. "
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" 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'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. "
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