I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.