Quotes from Kim Cattrall

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

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.

What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

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.

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.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

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

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.