"The problem is I'm always shouting. That's the way I keep my voice. But all that shouting is probably why I can't find myself a man for keeps."

"I cry if a man promises to call and doesn't."

"I can't stop singing. It is either singing or a bit of romance, and I don't get the romance so I will continue singing."

"I'd like to think I represent glamour on stage. To me, that's what this business is all about."

"I don't really know if I'm a diva, though. I still associate divas with opera, you know? Callas is a diva. Joan Sutherland is a diva. Now, suddenly, I'm a diva."

"Once I am away from the stage I want to immediately go back to being myself."

"Diamonds never leave you ... men do!"

"Who would have thought a little girl from Tiger Bay would one day become a Dame?"

"It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women."

"The first six months of a relationship are wonderful. I love that intensity, the passion, the 'can't keep away from each other', then it all starts to taper off. They don't want to stay home and watch television, they want to go out. They don't want to listen to what I say, they start putting me down and I won't take that."

"I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating."

"I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience."

"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."

"I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit."

"I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business."

"No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years."

"You don't get older, you get better."

"I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough."

 

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