At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

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.

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

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

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

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.