When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I have a lot of male friends.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.

And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little woman' type.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.