Pattie Boyd Quotes

I never wanted to be an actress. I didn’t have any ambition in that area.

I think there’s a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they’re meant to be, and how they got there doesn’t really matter.

During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.

I just don`t want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.

It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.

When you’re married to somebody iconic, people tend to notice him.

One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn’t happen, it’s a shock. But I just feel that it wasn’t meant to be.

Once I’ve taken photographs, I look at them, and I get into them, and I’m there for the moment – and then that’s it. I find little time for reflection.

I love life. There’s so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.

I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour.

I think modelling is a very difficult thing. It’s glamorous and fun, but underneath it all, you know your flaws, and those are what you focus on.

I feel very lucky that I was part of that whole scene in the ’60s and ’70s. I love looking at the photographs because everyone was young, and they were so gorgeous to look at.

I wasn’t really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren’t as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that’s all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

I’m one of these people who couldn’t imagine the future. The future never occurred to me. I just loved life every day.

It’s such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It’s so lovely to live without fear.

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.

I didn’t have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls’ boarding school, and my stepfather disapproved of me going out with anybody. I never really came across any boys. When I did, one of them asked me out, and I was petrified. I felt like a fish out of water, and it was excruciating.

I can’t rewrite history.

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I’ve been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.