My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

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.

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard.

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

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.

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.