Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

I loved living in Hollywood - and the weather there was just fantastic - but there is something about rural England, and especially Suffolk and Norfolk, that pulls at my heartstrings.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

I had no idea 'L.A. Law' would be so mega. I knew it was a big show, but I was just one actress in a group of many good, award-winning actresses.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Rest when you need to, but never quit.

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

I've always been a rough kid.