One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

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 said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

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

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.

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

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