It's never happened to me before, in my career, and never will again. It's a one-off experience. It's a rare treat to have a cast together for six years. Crews come and go, and a few of them have been there throughout, but not many. It's rare, in my experience, after 26 years, to have had a proper company in a show that enjoys each other's company, and who is such a fine bunch of people and actors. To have struck a chord with people, and to have had that combination, is extremely rare.

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

I have an excellent internal compass.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

It's never happened to me before, in my career, and never will again. It's a one-off experience. It's a rare treat to have a cast together for six years. Crews come and go, and a few of them have been there throughout, but not many. It's rare, in my experience, after 26 years, to have had a proper company in a show that enjoys each other's company, and who is such a fine bunch of people and actors. To have struck a chord with people, and to have had that combination, is extremely rare.