‘I feel I’m doing my best work now. Why retire?’

Jane Seymour turns 74 on Saturday, and the Somewhere in Time star is having the time of her life.

“I feel I’m doing my best work now,” Seymour told Yahoo Entertainment at AARP’s Movies for Grownups Awards on Feb. 8. “Why retire? I’m producing, I’m writing, painting and designing as I always do.”

“There’s no slowing down,” says Seymour, who is currently producing and starring in BBC America’s Harry Wild. “If anything, I’m not quite sure how I’m gonna get everything done! It’s all happening at once.”

The Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman star said she’s currently “being offered lots of movies.”

“Whoever thought I’d have that in my 70s?” she said.

Seymour said she feels honored “to tell the stories of my generation.”

“I actually was thinking about it seriously, because I’m a baby boomer. My parents survived World War II,” she said. “They met after the war, and they both kind of put the horrors behind, and they met one another and they started a family. So, I am part of a generation of new hope after absolute indescribable horror and hatred and a global war. So we are a kind of very special group, us baby boomers.”

Seymour added how she is “just so grateful to be healthy and well.”

“You know, we are not just little old ladies sitting around waiting until it’s over,” she said.

In fact, she’s booked and busy. On Monday night, Seymour opened the Nardos Fall 2025 show at New York Fashion Week, which was held at the Plaza Hotel.

While not every person in their 70s can strut down a catwalk or star in a movie to keep feeling young, Seymour had one important tip to share.

“If I can inspire that little fire in someone who’s sitting at home going, ‘Oh, what am I gonna do with my life?’ Get up and do something for someone else. You know, that’s how you have a good life,” she told Yahoo. “If you get out of your own pity party and see someone else that needs some help, see if you can cheer them up or do something.”