We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

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

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

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

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.

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

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.