Kim Cattrall

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'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

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

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.

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.

My film career was always to support my theater career.

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.

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?

Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it.

Your dressing area should be your private space.

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.

I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.