Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist

It's sort of like a lifeguard. They may not do anything for years until something happens.

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.