No wedding bells for me anymore. I`ve been happily married to my profession for years.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

It`s hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn`t like it a bit.

I hate it when people come up to me when I`m eating.

You don`t get older, you get better.

Diamonds never leave you... men do!

I`ve always been the breadwinner and men don`t like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

I`m a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

[on being awarded Dame Commander of the British Empire[ I was asleep and my manager came to wake me up because we were going out that night. I didn`t feel like getting up and I said. "Go away, let me sleep". Just as I was going back to sleep he said, "You wouldn`t get up even for Damehood?" I had to keep quiet for seven weeks. I nearly had a nervous breakdown. I was afraid to go out in case I told someone - my social life was nil