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" 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. "

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Sitting

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" 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. "

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Kid

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

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Important

Find

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

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

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Job

Gossip

" 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. "

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

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

" I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it. "

Kim Cattrall

Never

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

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Day

Always

" 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. "

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Chances

People

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Your dressing area should be your private space. "

" I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When I applied to different acting schools, he was right there and very supportive. "

" I've seen some women who are not particularly attractive but they have an assurance, and there's something so attractive about someone who doesn't have to work so hard. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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Feel

Kind

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

" 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. "

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Mother

" 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. "

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Myself

Barbie

" Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life. "