“I always say I want to die on the eighth curtain call. Eight will mean...” — Prunella Scales Quote

I always say I want to die on the eighth curtain call. Eight will mean the show's been rather a success.

Hobson's Choice' may have been in black and white, but it was a David Lean production filmed at Shepperton with Charles Laughton in the lead. So it was a big film - and it felt like it.

The thing I simply hate about my job is any 'celeb' coverage.

The people you learn most from are the audiences, which is why I'm always best on my last night.

It's strange how 'Fawlty' has become a perennial. I keep meeting new generations of schoolboys who know the lines better than I did when I said them. The program has sensational sales in video. I'm mercifully on a small percentage.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

As an actor playing a role, you are asked to visit certain sides of yourself day after day, night after night. If the portrayal requires you to feel some powerful, negative emotions, then once the curtain comes down or the director shouts cut, elements of these feelings will be left with you.

Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio.