I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

It's easy to get bogged down in bad news.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

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 am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I've come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian's great lines.

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.