Actress

I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.

I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.

I think dieting is bad for you.

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

I don't believe in dieting.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.