I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

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

I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

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.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.