I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since. How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that. I have enormous faith, but it's not attached to any one in particular religion.... My mother was one thing, my father another.I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and short memory! I whish I'd invented it, because it is very true... I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. People associate me with a time when fashion was pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without me ever seeking it. It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear get on with it. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact and on two feet. Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself. Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but sometimes others, cant see you as you really are. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal. I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're a fool. It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got to not forget to laugh. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose. Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why those who are always play ladies. I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress? Fashion should be bigger than life. Image should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life....I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone, but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck out life's blood. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age....