Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.

I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.