Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

You know, you're a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.