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Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.

I think older women still have a full life.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old character women. But that's what's always happened. Work out how you can fit into it, and make that work. There are never going to be millions of parts for older actresses because there never were.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.