A friend of mine is a rock star, and he says to me, I never hang out with my band.
A lot of guys my age and older were absolutely terrified of me. Younger men weren't.
A lot of women my age and younger think, I don't even want to have a family. Because once you have a child, that becomes your life.
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.
Being a teenage girl was probably one of the more challenging times in my life.
Did we get along? Yes, we got along. We were colleagues. Were we best friends? No.
Even though I'm still not sleeping, I just feel so invigorated.
Flattery is a wonderful thing, but I really want young girls to tell their own story.
I could go and do The Misanthrope, which led to this film over here, but I had enough money so I could go back to this little theatre.
I did a documentary where an expert states that sex is in the brain. It's not in the genitals.
I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.
I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows. I know what the experience was, and that's enough.
I feel my ex and I were brought together for a reason.
I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.
I get out of the bed every night, and there are lot of people who don't, so it's all in perspective, believe me.
I have a play to do and a character to play and it's very exciting.
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
I started lying in bed and practising not having any feeling from the shoulder down.
I think it's impossible to expect people not to merge personalities and storylines, especially when you're playing the character for six years.
I think no one had ever seen anybody quite like Samantha, and those unique characters in life stand out-not just for the sake of being unique, but for the sake of being who they are-themselves.
I think that men, after a while, especially sexually, feel they have to know all the answers. And younger men are like, Well, she's been out there a lot longer than me, so let's learn.
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.
I thought I wasn't a very sexual woman, although everyone assumed I was getting it in spades.
I wanted to separate myself from Samantha's libido.
I wanted to write the book because something had changed for me. I thought, My goodness, if that's my story, there must be lots of other women.
I would never go and hurt someone, I would never be abusive. But do I stick up for myself? Yes, I tell the truth. The rest of it I can't control.
I would often confound managers and agents by telling them that I was going to do a play in Chicago for three months.
I'd just turned 40, and when you sign on to a TV series, you sign on for six years.
I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once.
I'm certainly not a prude.
I'm creating a little space for myself to kind of find out what I want to do next.
I'm just thrilled to be here in London. To wake up in the morning and just want to go to work.
I've always thought that less was a lot more.
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.
If a series promotes women's friendship, there's nothing more certain journalists like than stories about women with their hands in other women's hair.
If there is a movie, it will have to be a really good script.
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.
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.
In the last three years I've started a production company, ended a marriage, moved homes, a dear friend of mine passed away. I look at all of these major events and I'm still around.
It took us about a year and a half to do the book, and I really loved doing it because it was so personal.
It's funny that a play about a woman wanting the right to die should have infused me with so much life.
It's hard, because you want to be liked. And sometimes you just have to say, I have to take care of myself.
Listen-you can't please everybody. People will get what they're going to get from it. Hopefully they'll be entertained.
Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.
Mentally, my friend who had the stroke, exhibited a tremendous amount of frustration, which you don't really see in disabled people. Society doesn't want to see it.
My best friend in high school suffered a massive stroke eight years ago. I was there when she was in intensive care and I had to go through the experience of doctors asking what we're going to do if she doesn't wake up.
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.
No matter what the situation, no matter what age you are, you have to protect yourself, but that starts with saying, I am worth not taking any kind of risk.
Of course these loved ones of mine are in my head and in my heart, but they're not on stage with me, because this is Claire's story.
On Sex and the City, we had our time together. We weren't best friends. We were colleagues. We had a common ground and a common purpose.
People assume that for me to play a sexually open character like Samantha, I must have had fabulous sex for most of my life.
People would constantly say to me, Do you hang out together? Well, our work days were 18 hours-the last thing I wanted to do was go and have a drink with anybody connected with the show.
Physically it was a real challenge, because I'm very active. With my arms and legs limp, it became almost like a meditation for me.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.
Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.
Telling these stories about life and humanity feeds your soul.
That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.
The best thing is to sit down with a nice drink and then read the reviews when it's all over, so you can't be affected by them.
The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
The people who are there for me are still there for me.
The perception is that I'm going to be something in the bedroom that they can't compete with, but that's their loss. Only the brave need apply.
The press is an animal unto itself, and perception can easily be turned upside down. You just do your best as regards what they call damage control.
The really important thing is the chemistry we had on film.
The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.
Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.
Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience.
There were things in my life that inspired storylines and things in Samantha's life which people associated with me.
There's so much pressure in the commercial world on what we're supposed to buy and how to look and what we're supposed to say.
To be a teenager now is even tougher than it was when I was growing up.
We had a period of time trying to work out the relationship, but it became very clear we weren't supposed to be together any more.
When I see young girls with the thongs and the Sex and the City glitter and the hipster pants, it is kind of cute, but I sort of see a caricature of something else.
When I was growing up, I had relationships with guys that were not sexual; that were just platonic.
When you become a teenager, you are entering the big bad world or the big exciting, wonderful, fabulous world that it is.
When you meet people who've seen you do these outrageous things, they're not relating to you, but to what they've seen, which is fascinating.
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.
Yeah, I do miss her. I don't miss the hours, but I also miss a lot of the people involved in the show.
You get to be in the driver's seat of your life. Don't sit in the back seat and let somebody else take over.
You get up there as a performer, and you do your best.
You have to say, I am going to take care of myself. If this guy is not going to use a condom, I'm not going to get into that situation.
Kim married Mark Levinson on September 4th 1998. They divorced in 2004. They had no children.
Kim is also a writer, with her ex husband Mark Levinson, of the book "Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm".
Kim admitted she had Botox injections in her forehead but confesses that she maintains her looks with a strict diet and daily exercise regime.
When Kim was three months old, emmigrated with her father, Dennis, and mother, Shane, to Canada, and returned to her native country at the age of eleven.
Kim's steamy car commercial was pulled in New Zealnd after the complaints of numerous broadcasts about it's raunchy content. Nissan removed the commercial waiting for the board to decide.
Kim first got the attention of American audiences with her infamous locker room scene in the 1982 film Porky's.
In 1999, Kim & co. won the Lucy Award at the Women in Film Lucy Awards.
In 2002 and 2004, Kim & co. won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for: Sex and the City (1998).
In 2003, Kim was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for: Sex and the City (1998).
In 1991, Kim was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress for: The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).
In 2003, Kim won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for: Sex and the City (1998).
In 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Kim was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for: Sex and the City (1998).
In 2004, Kim appeared in a TV commercial with Lesley Nicol for Tetley Tea.
Lom co-wrote (with her husband Mark Levinson) book: Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm, published in 2002.
In 2000, Kim appeared in a TV commercial for Pepsi One.
Kim presented at the 2000 GLAAD Media Awards to honor films and TV shows that accurately portray gay and lesbian people.
Kim Cattrall: (On Sex and the City) The show is celebrating what it's like to be a woman. We do things people think about but don't vocalize. It gives men and women permission to talk in a way that is healthy.
Kim was once engaged to actor Daniel Benzali.
Kim is approximately 5' 9?" (1.77 m) tall.
Is currently dating actor Alexander Siddig, most famous for his role as Dr. Julian Bashir on Star Trek Deep Space Nine. They co-star together in the London production of Whose Life Is It Anyway? (July 2005).
Kim was named one of People Magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People of 2001."
Kim is an advocate for senior citizens.
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