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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. "
Britt Ekland
Eating
Thought
Time
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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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" 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. "
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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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Looking
" 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. "
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Like
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" A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career. "
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Love Life
Love
" 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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Vintage
Clothing
" I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it. "
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Believe
Need
I Believe
" 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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Lines
Tractor
Right
" 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. "
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Busy
Me
Today
" 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. "
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Left
Right
" 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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Theatre
Doing
Early
" 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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Walk
Home
Power
" The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find. "
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Find
Exist
Man
" I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women. "
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Life
Days
Women
" I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see. "
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See
Think
Suffer
" The worst thing in the world is to be tired. "
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World
Tired
Worst Thing
" I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. "
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Children
Beautiful
City
" I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be. "
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I Am
You
Hypochondriac
" I don't sleep with happily married men. "
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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. "
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Beautiful
Treat
Me
" 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. "
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Years
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" I'm no angel. "
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" I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned. "
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Years
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