Kim Cattrall Quotes

Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

I like my life. It's good.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

The chemistry among the four of us is very strong.

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

In film, the possibilities are greater. You can go beyond the fourth wall. You can go to these incredible locations and you're put into circumstances that are physically sensuous. It sometimes requires much more of a physical talent.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

Easy? You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy?Honey, they don't call it a job for nothin'!

Your dressing area should be your private space.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

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.

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

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

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.

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. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.

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

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to take that step into motherhood. [...] Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

I like movies I can relate to.

I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

I'm certainly not a prude.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

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

I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day.

My male friends don't seem to have any feelings of intimidation that I am a 100-watt sex bomb standing next to them.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you cant see beyond it.

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

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

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.