This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.