We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I remember one director in Argentina said to me, 'You are not going to have any opportunity to be a leading lady because of your height.' And I didn't care. I don't have a complex.

Even the police have an unlisted number.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.