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.

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.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

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

We can't escape the shadow, so the best thing we can do is notice the light and be open to it.

Sort of what you do in drama school when asked to play something way out of your reach. Anyway, we used to laugh a lot about that. I used to say I'm not going to act old, Penelope. I'll just be myself.