Maureen O'Hara

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.