Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

I don't think in my family anyone looked after anyone. It didn't matter how old they were.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Any woman who marries an Italian must accept the undeniable fact that she has also married his mother.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.