Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

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