I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

I think I've always been much better at responding kind of reasonably appropriately to whatever is required.

I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.