I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

People always like things that seem exotic.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

Excellence is the name of the game.

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

When I'm on a location, I pick a restaurant that's close and private and eat all my meals there.

I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.