Kim Cattrall Quotes

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Kim Cattrall

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 21, 1956

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 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.

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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

I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.

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

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

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

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

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

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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 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

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

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

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.

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You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

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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.

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

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

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

Kim Cattrall

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

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