I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Al….

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men..

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me..

I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful….

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions..

I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show Nanny 911 occasiona….

Its either feast or famine, and thats the way its been for as long as I can remember. Ive spent my whole career thinking Ill never work again. Every ….

Of course, like any woman, I look in the mirror and think, 'Oh, wouldn't I look better with a bit of Botox?' But you've got to find comfort in your o….

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five..

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life..

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family. There was a lot of love and a lot of confl….

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starr….

I think the joy of any soap opera is it is always there. You are allowed into this world for a little while and it's safe in that you are watching ot….

Ive always loved my red wine, and when Im not working I can open a bottle too many. I love to cook, so its one for me and one for the casserole. I wo….

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfo….

Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40….

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses..

I'm an atheist, so it was actually a joy. Spitting on Christ was a great deal of fun. I can't embrace a male god who has persecuted female sexuality ….

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to vis….

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shoppi….