Britt Ekland famous quotes

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.
-- Britt Ekland

#Husband #Men #Easier

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.
-- Britt Ekland

#Meat #Vegetarian #Poor

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.
-- Britt Ekland

#Mowing #Lines #Hours

I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.
-- Britt Ekland

#Running #Work Out #Persons

I'm a light sleeper, but so long as I'm wearing earplugs, I sleep well.
-- Britt Ekland

#Sleep #Light #Long

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
-- Britt Ekland

#Beautiful #Children #Cities

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Luxury #Feet #Bills

I know a lot of people didn't expect our relationship to last - but we've just celebrated our two months' anniversary.
-- Britt Ekland

#Two #People #Lasts

I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.
-- Britt Ekland

#Giving #Needed #Generous

George Hamilton is one of the funniest men I have ever known.
-- Britt Ekland

#Men #Hamilton

Fame overcomes everything.
-- Britt Ekland

#Overcoming #Fame

This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed.
-- Britt Ekland

#Meaningful #Forget #Moments

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Children #Snakes #Three

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

#Handbags #These Days

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Ideas #Theatre #Stage

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Summer #Beach #Father

Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.
-- Britt Ekland

#Kids #Long #Lovely

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Coffee #Cups #Vices

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Son #Long #Healthy

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Today #Beginnings And Ends #Planning

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Class #Hurtful #Ears

As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
-- Britt Ekland

#Wings #Agony #Waiting

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.
-- Britt Ekland

#Regret #Father #Thinking

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.
-- Britt Ekland

#Talent #Young #Young Women

I will do my best to entertain. That's what I am: an entertainer.
-- Britt Ekland

#Entertainers

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.
-- Britt Ekland

#Hypochondriac

I don't sleep with happily married men.
-- Britt Ekland

#Memorable #Sleep #Men

I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.
-- Britt Ekland

#Running #Home #People

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Mother #Country #Son

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Exercise #Thinking #Smoking

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Beautiful #Husband #Brain

I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.
-- Britt Ekland

#Dresses #Beckham #Victoria

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.
-- Britt Ekland

#Vintage #Lace #Dresses

I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.
-- Britt Ekland

#Home #Sweden #Los Angeles

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Years #Four #Married

I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.
-- Britt Ekland

#Mean #Sleep #Men

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

#Giving #Body #Want

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.
-- Britt Ekland

#Beautiful #Years #Saws

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

#Father #Hair #Positively

I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
-- Britt Ekland

#Father #Thinking #Grandparent

I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.
-- Britt Ekland

#Believe #Needs #I Believe

Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.
-- Britt Ekland

#Jobs #Persons

I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see.
-- Britt Ekland

#Thinking #People #Suffering

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#Two #House #Bedroom

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.
-- Britt Ekland

#High Heels #Doors #Years

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.
-- Britt Ekland

#Ideas #Dieting #Eating

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

#Love Life #Hard Times #Careers