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" 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. "

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" The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Your dressing area should be your private space. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "