I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

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

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

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