"I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever"
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The subtext is aimed at an audience trained to treat older actresses as either cautionary tales or inspirational posters. Mills sidesteps both. “Back” implies a disruption, but she refuses to linger in the disruption for public consumption. “Loving life as ever” is almost cheeky in its steadiness; it reads like a rebuke to the expectation that joy must be justified with struggle, or that resilience needs a montage.
As an actress whose career has unfolded in an industry that polices women’s visibility, the intent lands as cultural self-defense: I am not your before-and-after. It also works as a tactical PR move - not inauthentic, just disciplined. She offers a simple metric of success (doing, loving) that can’t be easily argued with, and that re-centers agency over spectacle.
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| Topic | Happiness |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Mills, Donna. (2026, January 17). I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-back-to-doing-everything-i-used-to-loving-life-52439/
Chicago Style
Mills, Donna. "I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-back-to-doing-everything-i-used-to-loving-life-52439/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-back-to-doing-everything-i-used-to-loving-life-52439/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.



