It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

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

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.

My film career was always to support my theater career.

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.

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.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

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

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

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

Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic.

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.

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.

Your dressing area should be your private space.

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?

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.

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 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.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

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.