I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served.

The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else.

After my first fashion week, there were so many brands approaching us, and we said 'No' 90 per cent of the time. We didn't care about making a lot of money - it seemed so short term. We've always wanted to create something bigger.

Red Sonja, she was a hellraiser before Buffy, Xena, and Ripley even existed. When so many heroines in comics were all hung up on romance and the bizarre gender politics of comics at the time, Sonja was out cutting off the heads of dragons and pirates.

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.