You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

The best gift you can give someone is a part of your soul.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.

'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.