The only thing a star asks is to be allowed to twinkle.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.