Kim Cattrall Quotes

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

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

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.

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.

I'm certainly not a prude.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

What I'm now discovering - and I'm now in another decade - is that the older I get the more I have my self knowledge which makes me feel more sexy.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.

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 like my life. It's good.

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

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

I like movies I can relate to.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you 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 first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just sit there.

Who cares what you are just enjoy it!

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.

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

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

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.

Your dressing area should be your private space.

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

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 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.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

The chemistry among the four of us is very strong.

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