I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.
I didn't choose to be an actress
I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
Everyone has class, one class or another.
I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.
I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.
I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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