I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.