Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!

I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.