Felicity Kendal

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did. ”

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important. ”

Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love. ”

I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect. ”

A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with. ”

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you. ”

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up. ”

I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart. ”

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you. ”

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do? ”