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

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.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

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

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.

I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.

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