So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.

I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

God knows I've done enough crap in my life to grow a few flowers.

It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.