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

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

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

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

" A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill. "

" 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'm certainly not a prude. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I've realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it's getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night. "

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

" I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true. "

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

" 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. "

" Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women. "

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

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

" 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. "