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

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" 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 don't think I'm vain... but I do like to be lit well. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession. "

" 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 film career was always to support my theater career. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" I like movies I can relate to. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Your dressing area should be your private space. "

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

" As I get older, I find that cardio is less important to me. What I want to do more of is intense stretching. "

" Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "