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[on Sex and the City (1998)] The show is celebrating what it’s like to be a woman. We do things people think about but don’t vocalize. It gives men and women permission to talk in a way that is healthy.
I’ve been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point, I expected to be playing moms and wives. It’s exciting to play a femme fatale.

[on her role in Crossroads (2002), where she plays Britney Spears’ mother, who abandons her daughter as a baby and later rejects her as a teen] It was one of the hardest jobs in my life. I had to be mean to Britney Spears. She is such a little Southern sweetie who is only 20. She was so nervous and so well-prepared, and I had to reject her on screen because I’m her horrible mother who has left her.

I’m finding now in my 40s that the less makeup I wear, the better. I think softer is better as you get older. With everything. Except men. I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman
being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.