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" 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. "

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" I like movies I can relate to. "

" There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I've done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I'm the hottest thing going. "

" I have a big appetite, and staying on top of that is about knowing myself and saying, 'I can eat that today, but tomorrow I'm not going to.' "

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

" 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. "

" If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that. "

" 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've always thought that less was a lot more. "

" I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm certainly not a prude. "

" 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'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. "

" 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 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 wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky. "

" 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. "