"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

#Character Quotes #Phones Quotes #Play Quotes

“The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.”
“Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.”
“If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.367, Random House
“The music paled like a candle and went out ...”

Source : Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”
“Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I still cannot exaggerate how just putting a meal in front of somebody is really more of a buzz for me than anything. And I mean anything. Maybe that goes back to trying to please my dad, I don't know. It's like parenting in a way I suppose.”

Source : "While Other Boys in His Class Were Reading Shoot! Nigel Subscribed to Cordon Bleu Magazine". www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2003.
“Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.”
“The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.”
“This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybodyâ€™s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldnâ€™t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.”

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