Top 129 Quotes & Sayings by Kim Cattrall
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Kim Cattrall.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
I like movies I can relate to.
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.
I'm certainly not a prude.
I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.
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.
I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.
A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.
The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.
I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.
Your dressing area should be your private space.
When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.
That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.
If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.
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 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.
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?
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.
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 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.
The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog.
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.
Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.
Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.
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.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
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.
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.
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.
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'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 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 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 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.
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.
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've always thought that less was a lot more.
It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.
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.
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.
My film career was always to support my theater career.
I'm not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.
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.
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
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.
I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.
I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.
I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.
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 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 like my life. It's good.
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.
In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.
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'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.
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.
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.
Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.
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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