I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.