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  • Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.

  • The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

  • I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties.

  • I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you can't see beyond it.

  • There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

  • My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.

  • I have a big appetite, and staying on top of that is about knowing myself and saying, 'I can eat that today, but tomorrow I'm not going to.'

  • When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.

  • Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

  • Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

  • I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

  • Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

  • I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me.

  • What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it's got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When I'm down, I might find something that I haven't worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.

  • I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true.

  • Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

  • Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.

  • I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

  • I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

  • I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

  • I was a bit odd as a kid, because there were so little outlets for me. There was no theatre except for the odd community theatre and school shows. The only movie theatre was at the Canadian Forces Base nearby in Comox, so it either showed kiddie flicks for the families and restricted stuff for the men.

  • There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

  • There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

  • Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.

  • At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

  • I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.

  • What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.

  • Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady.

  • You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

  • I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.

  • I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite.

  • I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

  • My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

  • I've realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it's getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night.

  • I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him.

  • I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

  • When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband.

  • I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.

  • I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

  • I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

  • If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.

  • The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.

  • I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

  • When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

  • If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

  • Your dressing area should be your private space.

  • I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

  • I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

  • The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

  • In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

  • Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

  • I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

  • I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

  • Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

  • Easy? You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy?Honey, they don't call it a job for nothin'!

  • I'm certainly not a prude.

  • If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress.

  • I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level. I like movies I can relate to.

  • Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

  • I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

  • Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.

  • Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

  • I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.

  • A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

  • Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

  • I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.

  • You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

  • Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

  • Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

  • The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog.

  • It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

  • Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.

  • My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

  • A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.

  • Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.

  • I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.

  • I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.

  • I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

  • A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.

  • I've always thought that less was a lot more.

  • I like movies I can relate to.

  • When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

  • I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

  • That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

  • I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day.

  • I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

  • I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you cant see beyond it.

  • I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

  • I like my life. It's good.

  • I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to take that step into motherhood. Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around.

  • I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true,

  • I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

  • If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

  • I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

  • In film, the possibilities are greater. You can go beyond the fourth wall. You can go to these incredible locations and you're put into circumstances that are physically sensuous. It sometimes requires much more of a physical talent.

  • It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

  • My male friends don't seem to have any feelings of intimidation that I am a 100-watt sex bomb standing next to them.

  • The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

  • The chemistry among the four of us is very strong.

  • The earlier you learn to masturbate, the better your sex life will be.

  • The new millennium won't be about sexual labels; it'll be about sexual expression. It won't matter if you're sleeping with men or women. It'll be about sleeping with individuals. Soon everyone will be pansexual. It won't matter if you're gay or straight.

  • Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.

  • What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If Im in a good mood, its got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When Im down, I might find something that I havent worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.

  • When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

  • Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there.

  • Who cares what you are just enjoy it!

  • I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

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