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.

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

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

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

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.

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

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.