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

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

" I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids. "

" 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. "

" I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body. "

" 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 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.' "

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

" I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life. "

" 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 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. "

" I don't express a lot of things that I feel; I kind of register things. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "