After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

Elizabeth Taylor is not beautiful, she is pretty—I was beautiful.

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.