The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.