Don't Be Defeatist, Dear, It's Very Middle

Try Not To Cry Too Much Because It Can Be Pretty Heart-breaking And Pretty Hard.

Sort Of What You Do In Drama School When Asked To Play Something Way Out Of Your Reach. Anyway, We Used To Laugh A Lot About That. I Used To Say I'm Not Going To Act Old, Penelope. I'll Just Be Myself.

The Thing Is, Often Press People Ask Questions That Are So Personal That Even Your Nearest And Dearest Wouldn't Ask Them.

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 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.