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Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
I like to remember phone numbers because it keeps your brain active. If you don't use it, you lose it.
From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.
I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.
If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!
My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
And I have a special cream that I use that I made myself that I invented, that I put on at night and during the day.
If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?
I've always maintained that there is a very fine line between a daring, sexy older woman and mutton dressed as lamb.
Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.
I have girlfriends who've had Botox and been left with lumps in their faces. And the lips, don't even get me started.
I don't believe in eating junk and I protect my face all the time from the sun, even in the winter with base and makeup.
I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.
So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.
I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.
I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.
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.
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
I don't seek to be in the tabloids but I suppose sometimes I go out and I'm wearing something and they take a picture and it's in.
The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.
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.
There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.
I eat an avocado every day. It's amazing for your skin. It's one of the super-foods, and I'm just so into eating properly and healthily.
I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.
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.
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.
Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop it.
I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.
Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.
I do it because I love acting, I love working, and whether it's radio, television, films, theater, I don't care as long as I can get out there and do it.
But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.
The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.
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 received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
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've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.
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 don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.
When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.
I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.
I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we had great fun sourcing outfits.
According to my sister Jackie, most men stray. And sex doesn't mean anything to most men. But I wouldn't date a man who slept around. Absolutely not, I've divorced people for that