Citations

[on Patricia Routledge] I wouldn't like to get on the wrong side of her but nevertheless she's very professional and absolutely marvellous to work with.

[on her marriage to Leonard Rossiter] It's that big mistake a lot of people make if they work together and get on well together, which we did in the profession, but that's not the same as living with anybody. No, it was... well a total disaster, really. He didn't know he was being self-centred, he really didn't and he had an adoring mother who did everything for him.

I owe my TV career to Ronnie Barker; he was always a lovely, generous, good man. Around the time of The Two Ronnies, I was bending down looking into a supermarket freezer, when a woman suddenly appeared trying to see my face. I asked her why she didn't wait until I'd finished with the freezer and she said, 'Well, I don't have much time.' That's fame for you.

[on her marriage to Leonard Rossiter] He was a wonderful actor but a terrible husband.