"My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in."

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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?

— Julie Walters