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

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in.

Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

With your own children, you love them immediately - and with grandchildren, it's exactly the same.

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

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