However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.

It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life. . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.