Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

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.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.