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Skip slide summaries Everything in This Slideshow. Close this dialog window View All 1 of 19 All rights reserved. I'm working my mind, my imagination, and so I get energy from that.

I think I would be more tired staying at home reading a book than I am busy and being creative in the theater. Kim Cattrall: Yeah, the thing about doing the play is that it really puts your body in a different cycle because usually you get up in the morning and you have your day, and as night comes, you kind of start to slow down.

But for actors, and the crews in the theatre, and even for the audience for an extent So I try instead of having a late dinner after a show, even though I'm hungry, I'll try and make my breakfast my bigger dinner.

And have a bigger lunch than a big dinner. I remember going to a nutritionist and she suggested just turning my meals around and making my bigger meal my breakfast- lunch, instead of my dinner. My dinner being something than was less heavy, so I could go to sleep and get satiated before I went on stage so I would have energy.

I thought it was smart. Read: Kristin Davis. Kim Cattrall: Yes, I love to cook. I can cook something out of leftovers; I can cook something without going to the grocery store.

I'm very creative as a cook. The other day I had a friend over and I hadn't had a chance to go to the grocery store and we were both hungry I had taken some stewing meat out from the night before and thought I'd make a stew but I didn't get to it.

So I just improvised and made a little pasta, chopped up a little garlic, used some dry herbs, cooked the stewing meat and then I put it in the broth so it could simmer. I had some left over vegetables from the night before, I just put them in and made almost like a pasta dish with meat. And it was really delicious. I mean I've cooked better things, but with what I had at hand, I made a nice meal and had a nice glass of wine.

So yes, I can take care of myself. I've been around a lot of people for many years who cook. And I always wanted to do it by the recipe, and then I started to realize that these recipes were originally just ideas that people came up with of putting tastes together. But I think it was just a bit of nervousness about making a mistake. And I made a lot of mistakes in meals that I've made, God knows-in every part of my life. But it's just a meal, you know.

You forget it the next time you sit down to eat. Kim Cattrall: God no. No, no, no. Writing books is a lonely I like what I do because it's collaboration. And it is collaboration with an editor and everything. It's just that writing books is like writing a book report that never ends. And some of it is enjoyable because you get to reach an audience, but I much prefer what I do.

It's more fun, for me. HealthyLivinG: Your personality became a worldwide statement of beauty and joy in your second half of life. Which half felt better for you? Kim Cattrall: Are you telling me it's half over? I think it does get better. I think society doesn't want you to believe it gets better, because maybe you buy less stuff. And the advertising world doesn't pitch to you as to the 18 to 49 or whatever. But I think one of the greatest things about getting older is the peace of mind, and I've been very fortunate to achieve a lot of things that I set out to do.

So now I get to just experiment and try different things and enjoy. All the hard work that I put in in my 20s, 30s and 40s I look back at those times and they were very productive.

They went by so quickly. I think I'm savoring more and being more selective about what I do and where I go. And I think that just happens to you when you think differently about time and mortality. HealthyLivinG: What is the most important thing that you have learned about yourself? Kim Cattrall: I learned a lot about myself. I think one of the things I like about myself is that I feel that I'm courageous. People say, "it's just great what you're doing and what you're getting behind and its very brave of you.

Sometimes it terrifies me, but I seem to be strong enough, at least until now, to take on these roles, these challenges that I set for myself. And that makes me feel really alive, and I feel things intensely when I'm up against those odds. And I don't think its like a dare devil thing because I have a net of a director, and a theatre, and a play and great actors.

But there is that feeling of walking off a cliff that I think performers have of never really knowing how its gonna go. And you feel like you're on the stage and there's a tremendous amount of community, and family, and feeling that you are together as part of something. So I think that I like that about myself. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy.

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