I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

People keep asking me if I'll marry again. It's as if after you've had one car crash you want another.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.