Britt Ekland Quotes
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I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.
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Fame overcomes everything.
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I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.
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Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.
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I'm no angel.
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I don't sleep with happily married men.
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I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.
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I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.
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I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.
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Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
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I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.
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I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see.
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I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.
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I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.
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I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.
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I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.
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I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.
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I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.
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I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.
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I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.
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I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.
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I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.
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The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
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I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.