"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."

"I don't sleep with happily married men."

"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."

"I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be."

"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."

"My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films."

"I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it."

"It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms."