Quotes

[1988 interview] As I get older I'm becoming more experienced and more secure about myself and my work. Having not taken the correct route of drama school and the stage, it has been extra hard for me. I felt I didn't have the experience and therefore, I was very insecure. Now however, I feel I have--in a way--paid my dues by going back to the beginning and starting again. That's why I have been jumping at so many different projects. I feel I've earned the chance. I feel I can be up there with the other actors. I'm still not completely secure, but I'm much more secure than I used to be.

I was frightened of every opportunity I had. Part of me wanted the success and notoriety and part of me didn't. Part of me is a private person, but part of me must be a show-off to be able to be in the limelight. It would be lovely--in an ideal world--if I could do the work and then go home and have my private life and be totally anonymous. Unfortunately, it can't be that way.

I wanted to do art. Art was my love. I went to art school in Brighton but I was not very good at it. I just did not know what to do. I had a friend at the college who was studying photography and he needed somebody to photograph and he asked me. Unbeknownst to me, he sent the photographs to a big newspaper in London. The fashion photographer, David Bailey, was conducting a photo contest and my picture won.

[on losing her husband of 30 years, George Dugdale]: I was really broken. It was so difficult for me and so difficult for my girls. But Georgina and Iona have been amazing, they are my pillars, unbelievably strong. We're the Three Musketeers.

[on Roger Moore]: Very charismatic and wonderful. He made a perfect Bond, he'll always be my Bond, always. Nice, lovely man.

[on working with Vincent Price]: Oh, working with Vincent Price was p-I almost said priceless!. I don’t think that I’ve ever said that before! He was an absolutely…wonderful, sweet, and funny man. And a fabulous chef! Vincent and I used to first go into the make-up room. He would bring all of these wonderful little things that he made. I remember he brought in this huge plate of pâté that he’d made for the make-up girls, hairdressers, everybody. We sat there getting ready to do the scene in the coffin. So, we had some pâté, toast, and drinks and a day of filming in the coffin! But, Vincent was wonderful. Such a wonderful, caring person. And thoughtful. Extraordinary, really. I miss him very much.