My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfied, never admit to being happy.' But there's no curse in being happy.

I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.