Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.

My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.