I don't take myself very seriously. I like to make people laugh. You know, it's like, if a woman can't be happy for another woman's work, they have to go work on that.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.