We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.