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

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

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

A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

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