I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.

The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

With the film around for 25 years and the show being around even longer - still running and continuing to fill house all around the word - it's really an exciting and wonderful thing to be part of that.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.