Kim Cattrall Quotes & Sayings

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play. — Kim Cattrall

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

Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women. — Kim Cattrall

I follow life's changes, continue with my time-outs, and remain curious about what's next. — Kim Cattrall

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope. — Kim Cattrall

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

I've realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it's getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night. — Kim Cattrall

I got to L.A., and they said I had to lose weight, let my hair grow and buy some dresses. I was nailing auditions with my readings, but they wouldn't hire me because I wasn't putting on the glam. It just didn't occur to me. — Kim Cattrall

If I only did theatre I would have had to waitress, and I didn't want to waitress. — Kim Cattrall

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky. — Kim Cattrall

There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head. — Kim Cattrall

I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When I applied to different acting schools, he was right there and very supportive. — Kim Cattrall

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

I have a big appetite, and staying on top of that is about knowing myself and saying, 'I can eat that today, but tomorrow I'm not going to.' — Kim Cattrall

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

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

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

I found a lot of guys my age and older were absolutely terrified of me. Younger men weren't. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

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

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. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

I like movies I can relate to. — Kim Cattrall

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. — Kim Cattrall

I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that. — Kim Cattrall

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. — Kim Cattrall

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. — Kim Cattrall

I don't express a lot of things that I feel; I kind of register things. — Kim Cattrall

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

My film career was always to support my theater career. — Kim Cattrall

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. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

I exercise as much as I can. If I don't exercise, I feel sluggish. i try to do 30 minutes a day. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

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. — Kim Cattrall

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

Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular. — Kim Cattrall

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. — Kim Cattrall

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

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction. — Kim Cattrall

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

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me. — Kim Cattrall

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time. — Kim Cattrall

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

I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

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. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances. — Kim Cattrall

A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely. — Kim Cattrall

I don't want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I'm not good at it, and I don't like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It's horrible. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

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

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

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

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

What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating. — Kim Cattrall

I'm a single woman of 56 and I see a lot of men my age with much younger women or women my age with much younger men. I've done both, and I still hope that when I do find someone I want to spend time with, they think I'm the hottest thing going. — Kim Cattrall

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

I don't speak to my brother every week - doesn't mean I don't love him. — Kim Cattrall

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life. — Kim Cattrall

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

I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties. — Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession. — Kim Cattrall

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

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. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

I'm certainly not a prude. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

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

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. — Kim Cattrall

I never gave up believing that there was much more to life than how I was living it. — Kim Cattrall

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. — Kim Cattrall

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. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

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

As I get older, I find that cardio is less important to me. What I want to do more of is intense stretching. — Kim Cattrall

I was a bit odd as a kid, because there were so little outlets for me. There was no theatre except for the odd community theatre and school shows. The only movie theatre was at the Canadian Forces Base nearby in Comox, so it either showed kiddie flicks for the families and restricted stuff for the men. — Kim Cattrall

Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move. — Kim Cattrall

I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows. — Kim Cattrall

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

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body. — Kim Cattrall

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

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

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. — Kim Cattrall

Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life. — Kim Cattrall