When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.