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

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

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

" Your dressing area should be your private space. "

" 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. "

" Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like movies I can relate to. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed. "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act. "

" I found a lot of guys my age and older were absolutely terrified of me. Younger men weren't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "