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"...Acting doesn't allow you to grow old in the accepted sense. Of course wrinkles appear, and bones may not be quite so supple, but if you are in a room full of actors in their later years, you will be conscious of an extraordinary youthful energy.  It is invigorating to be with those people. Actors never give up. Their questing is eternal. This is both touching and brave. For most actors, the fear of being out of work continues to the end of their lives. Even if this may be a painful experience, it energises them. They keep in touch with what is going on, and cobwebs do not enshroud them."

(Anna Massey, in "Telling Some Tales")