I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.

I regard the theater as a woman I loved dearly who treated me like dirt.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.

Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

If you're blond, as I am, and you have blond lashes, you have to wear mascara, otherwise you're invisible on stage.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.