81 Quotes by Britt Ekland

I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

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

I was brought up very conservatively. My father was positively Victorian - I wasn't even allowed to wear my hair down.

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

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.

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

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.