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

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" 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 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. "

" Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move. "

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

" The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film. "

" My film career was always to support my theater career. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I don't think I'm vain... but I do like to be lit well. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction. "

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

" 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. "