I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.