The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

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

I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.

I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.