The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

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.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

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

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

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.