When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.

It's really beautiful. But you know, fancy footwear is a pain!

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.