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I Don't Think Films About Elderly People Have Been Made Very Much. I Think Of Cocoon And Driving Miss Daisy. But They Always Seem To Be Fairly Successful, So It's A Bit Baffling As To Why Everybody Has To Be Treated As If They Were Five-years-old.

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.

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.

I'm Just Glad To Get Any Role... The Fact That They're All 90 Is Neither Here Nor There! Actually, It Was Hook That Started It. I Think It Was Peggy Ashcroft Who Couldn't Do The Part And Somebody Was Asked How Old Was I And Would I Be Able To Do The Part, And The Person Replied "92" Very Quickly. And So I've Been Stuck Ever Since! But I'm Actually Very Grateful.

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.