Kim Cattrall Quotes

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

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

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Life
  • Heart

• 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
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Night

• Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Art

• 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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• 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
  • Environment
  • Theatre

• 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
  • Good
  • Bad

• I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows.

  

  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
  • Today

• 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
  • Career
  • Desire
  • Retirement

• 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
  • People
  • Work

• 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
  • Work
  • Theatre

• 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.

  

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  • Hair

• My film career was always to support my theater career.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Career
  • Support

• 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
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• 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
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Strong

• 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
  • Experience
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Women
  • She

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

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Men
  • Women

• I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Mother

• 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
  • Life
  • Women

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

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Movie

• 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
  • Proud

• 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
  • Work
  • Different
  • Vision

• A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Life
  • Long