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" 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. "

Kim Cattrall

Theatre

Television

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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Looking

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Mind

Got

" 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. "

" 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

" 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 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'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. "

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

" I like movies I can relate to. "

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Movies

Relate

" 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. "

" 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 don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible. "

" 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. "

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Teacher

She

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

" I like my life. It's good. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

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Day

Always

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