Kim Cattrall famous quotes

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Being Yourself #Rejoice

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Two #Vision #Pay

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Sweet #Kids #Thinking

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

#Decision #Quiet #Lost

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

#Lying #Foundation #Deceit

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 cant see beyond it.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Hard Work #Past #Thinking

What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If Im in a good mood, its got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When Im down, I might find something that I havent worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Reflection #Jeans #Shoes

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Wall #Talent #Sometimes

Vulcans are so smart. There's no excess; it's just enough. I learned coming away from the film that less really is much more. Sometimes, as a human, you get so discombobulated with emotions, but this was easier, because it was s o clean to play.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Smart #Emotion #Sometimes

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Heart #Follow Your Heart #Life Is

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Husband #Missing #Failing

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Play #Want #Sides

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,
-- Kim Cattrall

#Stress #Exercise #Dieting

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Thinking #Directors #Actors

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Guy #Stones #Doe

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Mother #Ideas #Giving

Your dressing area should be your private space.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Space #Should #Dressings

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Strong #Mind #Twenties

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Mother #Niece #Nephew

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Needs #Schedules #Breathe

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

#Order #Priorities #Looks

The earlier you learn to masturbate, the better your sex life will be.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Sex #Women

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Sweet #People #Bars

Who cares what you are just enjoy it!
-- Kim Cattrall

#Caring #Who Cares #Care

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

#Body #Want #What You Want

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Character #Journey #Thinking

The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Europe #Tv Shows #America

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'!
-- Kim Cattrall

#Jobs #Stress #Men

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Mother #Feelings #Steps

The chemistry among the four of us is very strong.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Strong #Four #Chemistry

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Theatre #Done

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

#Theatre #Roles #Film

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

#Vulnerable

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Desire #Looks #Youth

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Play #Vision #Firsts

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Bigs #Reviews #Devastated

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

#Zero #Men #Size

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

#Mother #Children #One Day

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Art #Expression #Play

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?
-- Kim Cattrall

#Careers #People #Age

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Independent #Men #Age

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Believe #Expectations #Trying

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Retirement #Thinking #Careers

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

#Jobs #Gossip #Spit

I like movies I can relate to.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Relate

I like my life. It's good.
-- Kim Cattrall

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

#Play #Saws #Firsts

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#People #Get Better

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Theatre #Trying #England

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

#Curiosity #Actors #Today

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

#Thinking #Careers #Interesting

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Mom #Play #Wife

I've always thought that less was a lot more.
-- Kim Cattrall

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Smart #Mind #Dollars

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

#Character #Personality #Actresses

I'm certainly not a prude.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Prudes

I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Trying

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.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Life Is Hard #Sensual #Affair

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.
-- Kim Cattrall

#Dog #Cheating #Men