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.

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

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

Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

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