Britt Ekland Quotes
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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 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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I'm no angel.
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I don't sleep with happily married men.
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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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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'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.
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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 listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.
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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 believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.
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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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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'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 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 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'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.
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Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.
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I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.
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I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.
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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.