Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.

Until we make the unconscious conscious, we will be dictated by it and call it fate.

History is biology's dumping ground

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.

When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!

The truth is always multiplex.

You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.