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What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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Becoming doubly incontinent.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
Not being able to fend for myself and being a burden to others.
Not feeling old but everyone treating you that way.
I am genuinely buzzed about it! I think we just keep getting better, smarter, wiser, truer, happier.
To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
Glenda Jackson said I was an amateur during rehearsal for The White Devil at the Old Vic. I called her a cow, but that was inadequate.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
Gregory Porter, Tom Burke, Michelle Collins, Dawn O’Porter, Philippa Dunne, Maurice Sendak
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