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

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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. "

" 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 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 like my life. It's good. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there. "

" I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress. "

" I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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