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..

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

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

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..

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

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse..

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!.

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

I only like boutiques..

I loved having a crew. I loved being the person who woke at six in the morning and knew where to put the camera. I loved watching the actresses cry, ….

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked ….

People always like things that seem exotic..

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries..

I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I was very conventional because I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with di….

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted w….

One of the things I've discovered, thanks to the Japanese, is that you should enjoy yourself. In the old days, I used to think: 'Oh, never be satisfi….

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..

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

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all..

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential ho….