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.

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

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.

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

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

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

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.