I've always preferred animals to little girls or boys. I had my first horse - actually it was a Newfoundland pony - when I was three, and I loved riding, without anyone shackling me - riding bareback as fast as I could.

Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.

I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Burton)

You can always avert throwing yourself in front of an oncoming train. There is something that just pulls you away - and it has pulled me away, because I'm not dead yet - just at the brink of impact. Sometimes I have been really grazed by that train.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.