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How do they justify paying all these millions to Jonathan Ross? I mean, did he invent radium or something?

I'm horrified when I look at pictures now and see a fat old lady with a bulging face. I was extraordinarily beautiful back then but I didn't know it.

Joan Sims was always theoretically my sister, though she wasn't. Sheila Sim was married to Dickie Attenborough and because they often saw the Queen I suspected Her Majesty thought I was married to Dickie. She was always extra nice, as if she knew me, which she didn't except as an actress. I suppose it was a bit confusing but Sylvia Syms is my own name and it would have upset my father if I'd changed it.

[speaking in 2018] I can't announce my retirement because I don't work enough. If someone offers me a job and I can still do it, I'll do it.

[on 'the casting couch'] It did not happen to me, partly because a lot of the men I worked with had come up a different way. You can't imagine Anthony Quayle, war hero, groping. Or John Mills who had been acting since he was a boy. Orson Welles would not have bothered. I was very naive but I was also a respectable married woman.

I'm not dame material really. An Oscar's very useful if you want to be a dame.