Quotes

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

[on her looks] I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

After I had my first child, I stopped breastfeeding early because I had been told that there was a possibility that I might star in The Thorn Birds (1983), which I wanted more than life itself. I went to do the screen test and everything went great until we [Richard Chamberlain and I] did the love scene. I had stopped feeding for three weeks and unexpectedly my milk came in! I lifted myself up in my pink 1930s negligee, and it's a wet T-shirt contest! I looked up and it was just terrible. There was a big puddle of white milk all over his bare chest. I mean a puddle. This was a serious incident. His reaction was not good. You just say, "What can you do?".

Get over jet-lag quickly. I think a lot of people waste the first few days sleeping in the wrong time zone. Sometimes, I take melatonin, but at other times, a glass of wine will do it.

[In 2015, on her long successful career following her big break in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973)] It wasn't really hard to get roles directly after that. I met Renée Valente, who was a casting director at the time. And she said, "If you can lose your English accent, you would do very well in America." I came to America with no work permit, no agent, nowhere really to live, and within six weeks I got my first role. I became labeled as the "queen of the mini-series" because I did one mini-series after another. Basically, I worked consistently and usually with a different American accent every time.

About artist Robert McGinnis, who did a poster for Seymour's film Live and Let Die (1973) where she was a bikini-clad redhead: A great movie poster will get everyone’s attention - and he certainly did that with the beautiful woman they now claim is me. I think it’s a great poster. But at the time I saw it I thought, It’s a shame I’m not on it. I thought I was in this movie.

About her mother: She always taught me, :Open your heart when times get tough, accept what happens, live in the moment and reach out to help others as there's always someone worse off than you." She believed, rightly, that gives you purpose and helps you heal. So I always do my best to forgive and move forward.

When you get older, as a leading lady it gets harder...You try not to have someone else upstage or take the shine. When I play character roles I am usually playing people who are slightly over the top, so that goes fine.

Over the years, I've learnt that out of challenge comes opportunity and I know if I hadn't been tested, I wouldn't have pushed myself or been able to discover my abilities.