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" A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career. "
Time
Love Life
Love
" As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble. "
Know
Waiting
Time
" Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around. "
Ears
Like
Clown
" Fame overcomes everything. "
Everything
Fame
Overcomes
" I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be. "
I Am
You
Hypochondriac
" I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it. "
Believe
Need
I Believe
" I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function. "
Going
Years
High
" 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. "
Me
Career
Looking
" I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything. "
Eating
Thought
Time
" I don't sleep with happily married men. "
Married Men
Married
Sleep
" 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. "
Beautiful
Treat
Me
" I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want. "
Things
Give
Wants
" I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left. "
Got
Left
Right
" I'm no angel. "
Angel
" I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women. "
Life
Days
Women
" I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again. "
Lines
Tractor
Right
" I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see. "
See
Think
Suffer
" I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more. "
Me
Vintage
Clothing
" 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. "
Walk
Home
Power
" I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed. "
Busy
Me
Today
" I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned. "
Beautiful
Years
Pictures
" I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. "
Children
Beautiful
City
" 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. "
Now
Long
Him
" The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find. "
Find
Exist
Man
" 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. "
Theatre
Doing
Early
" The worst thing in the world is to be tired. "
World
Tired
Worst Thing
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