It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.

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

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

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

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

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