Jeanne Cooper

When I signed up for Y&R, my actor friends said, 'A daytime soap? It'll kill your career!' Now they'd trade places with me in a heartbeat.

No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

Sometimes when you make mistakes, if you learn by your mistakes, by golly, that's when you can really go forward.