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.

I think everybody who was in it thought they were all going to be Eartha Kitt or be big stars. That didn't happen, but it was a wake-up call to have one's first professional job on Broadway, I must say.

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

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

I'm just glad to get any role... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful.

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.