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“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.”
“I've never been that keen on Shakespeare.”
“I do think it's very important, if you're going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.”
“I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.”
“You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.”
“Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.”
“But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.”
“I think dieting is bad for you.”
“My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.”
“And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.”
“Doing 20 minutes of stretching, light weights and floor exercises three times a week takes the same amount of time as a long coffee break - and eating a tuna fish salad, sardines on toast or scrambled eggs is surely preferable to a Big Mac or KFC.”
“If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!”
“I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.”
“It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.”
“I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.”
“I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed.”
“Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.”
“It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?”
“Jennifer Aniston is cute, but I wouldn't call her beautiful. I think that is why Cheryl Cole is so popular, because she is just so pretty and the public are starved of gorgeous people. When I was young, everybody on screen was gorgeous.”
“I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.”