I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

I’d always had a big thing for the ’60s.

People might find me attractive, but it’s also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

I feel that I’m at my best as a person and that I’m coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way...

My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I’m in concert, I get people now who bring their...

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though.

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay – which was so annoying!

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone’s critiquing.

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don’t exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

There were huge big bands like Count Basie, and I used to go from the theatre to Birdland, and they all knew me. I loved the big band sound.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even...

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

My boyfriend’s idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, ‘Go!’ Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to...

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they’re not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these...

If you’ve got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it’s beautiful. I’m such a romantic, and I always have been.

I couldn’t do anything. I’d work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn’t hack it. I couldn’t even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

When I was in New York I fell madly in love with an Italian and got married. I couldn’t get out of it, and that’s when I got a bit ill.

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.

It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn’t really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I’m gay...

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Please don’t ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn’t Brown or Smith or Hughes.

You had to to sort of work your way into some sort of clique, and I had no intention of doing that. So I just sort of was funny.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

I’m a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I never used to sleep much. I think we all go through a bit of a time like that where we rage about. If we don’t, I don’t think you’ve ever really lived.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

We must be able to inspire. That’s my goal in acting.

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren’t really allowed to go out shopping for work.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn’t see myself as a gay woman, even though that’s where my heart was.

I don’t know if it’s a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I’ve lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

I’m living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

I’ve been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I’ve been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and...

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn’t sure of it.