People say it gets better but it doesn’t. It just gets different, that’s all.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost – it’s there and then it’s gone.
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 am just surprised to be doing anything at my age actually. When you think of where I am now and where I’ve come from, I am very pleased and very grateful to be standing up and delivering Julian’s great lines.
Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness.
There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it’s there it’s stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn’t ask them.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
