I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

I'm loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

The key to overcoming adversity is to be ready to understand that you have enough, no matter what rug is pulled out from under you. You can't live in fear, or thinking "I'll never figure it out." The more consciously we can understand what we're experiencing, the more that is our protection. So, we run into adversity, but we don't have to stay there if we have imagination and a way to help ourselves change course. Sometimes we can't - knowing the difference is wisdom and the acceptance that we have enough.

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.