Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'

I really try to understand what people are saying and answer as honestly as I can. But sometimes it's like they try to tie you into knots. That's why I mostly steer clear of the popular press. I try not to read . . . Well, I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag.