The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

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.

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

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

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.

It made it feel impossible, quite honestly, because filming - you film come rain, come shine, come whatever. And it did rain a lot. And of course, that's what she must have gone through. Of course it rained; of course it was cold... But, you know, it really was quite hard to be out there in the rain.