“My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring...” — Diana Quick Quote

“My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle group, and there would often be dancing in the house. And my parents would come and dance with us.”

“I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent.”

“I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.”

“It gives me great pleasure to be on nationwide TV again. I always look forward to being in front of the greatest fans in the world, brother.”

“The worst thing that happened to me as a child was seeing my brother get pushed into a cement mixer.”

“Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.”