Britt Ekland Quotes
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I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.
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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.
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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.
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I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.
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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.
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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.
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George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.
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I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.
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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.
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I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.
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A lot of young actresses have a hard time combining a reasonable love life with a career.
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I don't sleep with happily married men.
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Fame overcomes everything.
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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.
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I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.
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I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
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I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.
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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.
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I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.
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I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see.
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I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
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I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.
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I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.
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I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.
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Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
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I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.
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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.
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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.
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I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.
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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.
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