- "It was a flea pit and smelled. There was a woman at the piano with the light shining on her, and another woman who pumped disinfectant into the air. I thought it had the scent of sweet lavender, and that the palace - my palace - was the most wonderful place in the world." Referring to an cinema where her grandmother used to drop her off for the afternoon.
- My favourite role was the old barmaid in The Horses Mouth, with Alec Guinness. I wore a horrible black wig.
- I loved the cinema but had no dreams to be an actress. I didn't think I would be good enough. I really wanted to be a writer.
- I can't remember a time when I didn't dance. My first memory of a public performance was darting into Church Street, Chelsea, and dancing to a barrel organ, aged three.
- [on her first marriage] "David warned me that life with him would be very difficult. He had damaged so many women and he didn't want to damage me. Being in love with David was a killer, and how I survived I don't know."
- I was never in the big time, and I don't remember ever wanting to be in the big time. I enjoyed working, just working.
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