However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

My last kids were born when I was in my forties, so I still had little kids around me, which gave me the illusion of feeling younger.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

I will carry on acting as long as I have breath and as long as I have energy and as long as I can remember my lines. Those are the basic things you need to be an actor. I'll never retire unless something happens to me and I can't do it well. If I can't do it well I don't want to see the public to see me wasting away in front of them.

I always choose to do the thing that scares me.