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"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."
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"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."

"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."

"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."

"When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation."

"I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things."

"I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now."

"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
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