Words matter. These are the best Kim Cattrall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I haven’t played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
My family was going back to England to visit my mother’s grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.
It’s your body, your life. Do what you want to do.
Since doing the show I’ve been so busy that I’ve not really had time to mope.
I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness – and some happiness, if you’re lucky.
I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you can’t see beyond it.
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.
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.
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?
Shows like ‘Sex and the City’ got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.
I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren’t afraid of playing their age.
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.
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.
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.
I actually think ‘Sex and the City’ helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.
A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.
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 like movies I can relate to.
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.
If I didn’t work in television or film, if I didn’t have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I’m not a nihilist, I’m an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.
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.
The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It’s really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don’t have any regrets, really. I’m quite content. I’m very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.
If I’m producing, I’m not acting, and it’s such a long road to get anything off the ground.
I’m a trisexual. I’ll try anything once.
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.
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 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.
I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn’t hire me because I wasn’t putting on the glam. It just didn’t occur to me.
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.
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’ve always thought that less was a lot more.
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.
If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn’t want to waitress.
There’s a look people get in their eyes when you’re talking to them and they’re not seeing you, and you know it’s because they have a movie running through their head.
It’s easy to diet or get off a diet when you’ve got a juicy role to play.
I’m a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.
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.
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.
I’m not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.
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’m not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it’s safe. But I’m not interested in doing that.
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 consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.
Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.
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.
I like my life. It’s good.
When I see a woman who looks her age, she’s radiating something, and it’s life.
I don’t think I’m vain… but I do like to be lit well.
I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.
I’m certainly not a prude.
In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that’s what’s interesting.
What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There’s vacations, and there’s vegetations. I don’t do well vegetating.
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 always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.
I have a big appetite, and staying on top of that is about knowing myself and saying, ‘I can eat that today, but tomorrow I’m not going to.’
I didn’t want to get married, and I didn’t want kids – I knew I wanted to act.
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.
My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
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.