It was my father who taught me to value myself.

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath

People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

I think every woman would want to do something about their cellulite!