I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.