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.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

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

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, dont come along very often.

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 am pretty self-indulgent.