I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.

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.

The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.

It has been utterly exhausting to love you.

Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

(Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.)

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

A patriotic song is an emotion and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.