Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.
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.
The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.
I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
