Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.

I wake up and look at that bridge, try to count the red taillights I see heading east every morning, a kind of rosary as I pray for another crisis to dwarf the one defining us right now.

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

What you become is what counts.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don’t dare tell me the truth, and the other half can’t find it.

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.