my life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.

The theater was my mother and my father.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.