Top 100 Kim Cattrall Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.
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#3. I don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.'
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#8. I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.
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#9. 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.
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#10. I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day.
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#11. I've realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it's getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night.
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#12. 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.
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#13. My film career was always to support my theater career.
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#14. 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.
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#16. Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.
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#17. That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.
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#18. I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him.
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#19. The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.
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#20. In film, the possibilities are greater. You can go beyond the fourth wall. You can go to these incredible locations and you're put into circumstances that are physically sensuous. It sometimes requires much more of a physical talent.
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#21. My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.
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#22. Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.
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#23. 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.
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#24. I realized that so much of the pressure I was feeling was from outside sources, and I knew I wasn't ready to take that step into motherhood. Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around.
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#25. I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.
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#30. When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Your dressing area should be your private space.
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#34. 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.
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#35. I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite.
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#36. At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.
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#37. You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.
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#38. Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
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#39. A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are learning about the actors, the actors are learning about the characters.
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#40. I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.
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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#43. It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.
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#44. I found a lot of guys my age and older were absolutely terrified of me. Younger men weren't.
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#45. I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
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#49. If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.
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#50. Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.
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#54. 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.
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#55. The earlier you learn to masturbate, the better your sex life will be.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.
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#58. 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.
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#59. The chemistry among the four of us is very strong.
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#60. I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.
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#61. Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#65. I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill.
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#66. Easy? You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses. Easy?Honey, they don't call it a job for nothin'!
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#67. I don't express a lot of things that I feel; I kind of register things.
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#68. Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.
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#69. 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.
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#70. My male friends don't seem to have any feelings of intimidation that I am a 100-watt sex bomb standing next to them.
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#72. Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls ... because they can.
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#73. I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#76. It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.
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#79. 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.
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#80. In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.
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#81. 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.
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#82. I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
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#85. 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.
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#86. 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.
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#87. I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next.
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#88. 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.
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#89. I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.
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#90. I don't think I'm vain ... but I do like to be lit well.
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#91. I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.
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#92. 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?
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#93. I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.
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#97. The new millennium won't be about sexual labels; it'll be about sexual expression. It won't matter if you're sleeping with men or women. It'll be about sleeping with individuals. Soon everyone will be pansexual. It won't matter if you're gay or straight.
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#98. It was difficult when I was very young because I was so separated from my family. When I was at school or acting in a play, I felt very much part of something, and then it would always change, and I would be by myself.
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#99. Looking good has never been the most important thing to me. Maybe it's because I'm more conventionally, um, acceptable, so it's not an issue for me. I don't know.
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#100. Courting is a much sweeter term than 'dating'. It sounds like it has more intent, more like an agreement that two people enter into with a future in mind.
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