I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

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

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

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

I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed.

Wherever the wings of love take me, that is my flare path and my way.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.