"People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all."
"The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed."
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"I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it."
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"When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything."
"Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point."
"I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything."