Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldnt get any roles other than as somebody dark.
I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.