Kim Cattrall always wanted to have children.

The 'Sex And The City' actress would have loved to have been a mother but admits she never found herself in the right situation to become pregnant and accepts, at 54, she never will.

She said: "I've always wanted to have children. That never happened. And I thought, 'Well, I'll do it next year. I'll do it after this film. And then there was, 'Oh I'm single.' There is a feeling you give up a lot on this job, but you have to get a lot back, too. Luckily I have great friends and I have found a tremendous amount of happiness in mentoring young actors. They're like my kids."

Kim - who has been divorced twice - also revealed how her work has taken over her personal life and was probably to blame the breakdown of her marriages.

The 'Meet Monica Velour' star told the Independent newspaper: "You know the price that you pay - not all actors, but this actor - is that I've been very lonely a lot in my life. I've had two marriages and I loved both my husbands very much, but I didn't see very much of them. The length of my work days is really hard on relationships. You never see anybody and that's a very tough thing for a woman."