If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

It's the idea that when you say 'actress', people think of an airy, floaty, no-brain person, which of course you can't be if you are an actor. It is an unfortunate word, which is why, for a time, I hung on to 'actor', because it just seemed more workmanlike, you know, like you say 'woman doctor' not 'doctoress'.