I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

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

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.

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.