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.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

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 got through my teen years by being a bit of a clown.

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

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.