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.

What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it's got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When I'm down, I might find something that I haven't worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.

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

I'm a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I've done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I'm the hottest thing going.

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

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.

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

Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

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

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

A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady.

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

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 film career was always to support my theater career.

There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.

I like my life. It's good.

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

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.

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

Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.

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

Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move.

I've seen some women who are not particularly attractive but they have an assurance, and there's something so attractive about someone who doesn't have to work so hard.

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

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

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.

I like movies I can relate to.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

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 am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.

I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties.

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 never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.

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

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.

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.

I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When I applied to different acting schools, he was right there and very supportive.

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

I'm certainly not a prude.

As I get older, I find that cardio is less important to me. What I want to do more of is intense stretching.