The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.