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.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

I'm not my mother. And so I'm not raising my kids in the same way. I don't respond in the same way. We don't spend our days in the same way because I don't necessarily enjoy the same things she likes to do.

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.