You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

I can talk myself so much into my part.