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I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

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 I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.

I think dieting is bad for you.

The clothes were a huge part of what made 'Dynasty' fun.

I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.

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

The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

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

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

Only fine cigars are worth smoking and only men who smoke fine cigars are worth kissing.

I eat an avocado every day. It's amazing for your skin. It's one of the super-foods, and I'm just so into eating properly and healthily.

Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.

It's just something that I like, and I also don't buy into the ageism theory.

Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.

I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

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

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

I don't believe in dieting.

I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?

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.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

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.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.

Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.

If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him ... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

After a certain age you get the face you deserve.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

I don't seek to be in the tabloids but I suppose sometimes I go out and I'm wearing something and they take a picture and it's in.

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

The endless bonking was exhausting me.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

I don't believe in eating junk and I protect my face all the time from the sun, even in the winter with base and makeup.

Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes

I have a lot of male friends.

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.

There are some brilliant designers but their clothes only really suit 6 foot 20-year-olds.

I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.

I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.

I don't believe in vitamin pills. I swear by men, darling-and as many as possible.

Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.

I blame my grandmother for encouraging me to become an actress.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

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

I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.

It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

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'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.

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.