You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.

The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses.

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!