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What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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Nothing. I’m curious how things will evolve.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
I don’t think anything scares me. It’s a gift and I want to embrace it.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
Having conversations with young people who you remember being born.
Losing the people that I love.
When I was younger, I signed up to a job agency and thought I would be doing secretarial work, but they assigned me to clean toilets in a factory in Oldham.
That I don’t give myself enough credit.
If you’re a mother, you are embarrassing. Is that not just the way?
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
If somebody doesn’t want to understand or see you that’s on them. You don’t have to carry that with you.
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
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