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

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

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.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

I am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.