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If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice.

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look real anymore. If you freeze everything on your face, you can't emote.

Now that I've experienced ageism, I don't regard it as a bad thing. It's been a transition to something more exciting and maybe edgier.

I wanted to be a serious actress rather than a pretty face.

I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.

When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.

No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes I take melatonin but at other times a glass of wine will do it.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an actress.

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.

It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.

An agent once told me that if I would lose my English accent, I would never stop working in America.

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