Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours but he survived the whole war.
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war famine and natural disasters.
No I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film 'Ode to Lovely War' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith um and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.
My mother lived in Holland and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war and I think we need to step back recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people and resetting our position in the world.
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.
You cannot be politically correct in a war.
And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films it would be 'Civil War' – not civil war in the way we know it but the daily war that goes on between us all.
The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!
I mean we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
