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

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

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

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

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

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

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