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

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

Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself.

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

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.