- At boarding school I even kept mice in my underclothes drawer. It made me smell most attractive, as you can imagine.
- Giraffes are completely tranquil-they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
- Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic-as if from the land of fables. They have extremely beautiful faces, huge eyes, very sensitive nostrils and Oh, blue tongues!
- Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
- I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted.
- I like to keep up the image of smoking, only because it's getting such a bad press!
- When you are in a country where nobody has ever seen television, people look at you with eyes that don't know who you are.
- I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
- I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.
- You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
- "Ayo Gorkhali" (Nepalese: "The Gurkhas are coming") - traditional Nepalese rallying cry to celebrate the UK government's decision to give all Gurkhas who served in UK armed forces the right to live in Britain.
- If something went badly wrong, then maybe. I've had collagen to fill out a scar on my chin. I've also used it on deep lines across my forehead - it can stop you looking very worried or very tired, and I don't need that. Hard lines around the mouth, too, you don't need them. Never on the lips, though - I can't think of anything worse.
- [on being made a Dame] It was an extraordinary shock. I put my head in my hands and sobbed like a baby. Then I thought, how has this happened? Is it a mistake? I truly was completely thrown by it, and thrilled to bits, and so touched.
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