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's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.

I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely.

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.

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

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

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.