I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?