Quotes

"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.