I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.

I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.

I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

I always try to have a vacation.

Transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it.

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.