Author

I love touring, I really do.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.

Penelope Keith