I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

We're all works of art in progress.

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

There’s always a boyfriend... Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

A good name is better than precious ointment.