Britt Ekland Quotes

A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.

I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting into my body. Today things are very different. I stopped smoking in my late 30s; I avoid wheat and gluten as this makes me feel bloated and sluggish; exercise regularly and bounce out of bed.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed.

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.

The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.

I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.

I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.

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 have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

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 say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.

I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.