People in tennis, they've been in a certain bubble for so long they don't even know who they are, because obviously it's just been tennis, tennis, tennis. And let it be just tennis, tennis, tennis. Be locked into that. But when tennis is done, then what? It's kinda like: Let's enjoy being great at the sport.

My mom, she wanted me to go to college and then after that you could do what you want.

There was always a purpose in what I did on the court because at the end of the day, my parents, they sacrificed for me and my brother. I had to do it for them.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

I want to win titles like Delray and even bigger.

Love the people that want to support you, love the people who are there for you, because you definitely earned that right.

I don't think our priority should be on immigrants. Obviously, they come to the States for a better life, so the last thing they want to do is rob a bank or do something bad.

You can't forget your roots.

I try to treat everyone with love and respect. If you do that, you get the same back, if not more.

My academy did a great job of getting my story out there for people to hear about me, get interested and wanted to fund me.

I just want to be great.

I've played so many matches in my career so far where I played unbelievable, came up just short.

It's Roger Federer - this guy has about a million Grand Slams and done everything.

I have fun when it's the right time to have fun, but when I lock in for practice and matches, I'm not worried about fun.

I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

I've always kept fit but I've been doing gym and yoga and will be throwing my stilettoes away for a while!

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.

I am pretty self-indulgent.

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

I didn't choose to be an actress.

I do find acting cathartic.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.