Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

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'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

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

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

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

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