I think the quality of sexiness comes from within.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.

When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude.

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.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'