I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and … - Julie Walters

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All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

Julie Walters

I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You don't expect funny to come through after 200 years - humor doesn't transcend decades, let alone centuries.

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I'm more selective now I've got a family. I don't want to work all the time. My daughter's 12; I don't want to miss out on her life. Soon she'll be a teenager; she won't want me around.

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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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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.

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

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

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Increasingly as I've gotten older, I'm much more interested in what the reality of the shoot is going to be versus what the result of the shoot might be. I'm so bad at guessing what's going to be good and what's going to be bad - there doesn't seem to be any correlation between things that are within your control.

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