Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard. 
It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand. 
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty. 
The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. 
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. 
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. 
I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed. 
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. 
When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting. 
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. 
Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you. 
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be. 
It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are. 
I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course. 
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage. 
The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back. 
Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class. 
When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything. 
I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with. 
I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire. 
I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen. 
I'm so moved to hear Celia Johnson again, so lovely. 
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary. 