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

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

It's easy to get bogged down in bad news.

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

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.

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.

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.