Quotes

[Speaking about Pinewood Studios and the Carry On films] "We were an elite. It was like being at school, we belonged there."

I've been lucky to play so many different types of women, from a sexy nightclub singer to Mrs Sparsit in Hard Times and I'm still having as much fun as I did when I started, which isn't bad going after 60 years, is it?

Theatre companies are like families and these days of course I'm the mother, dispensing tea and sympathy to anyone who needs it.

My mother always loved the theatre and wanted to be an actress herself. She would have loved me to go to the RADA and become a proper actress but I'd already seen Dolores Gray in "Annie Get Your Gun", so I had other ideas.