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" 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. "

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

" 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'm certainly not a prude. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 like movies I can relate to. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era. "

" 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. "