The 86-year-old soap favourite – who has appeared on the cobbles as Ken Barlow for 58 years – admitted that the show has grown so big that it's not like the good old days.
He said on Sunday Brunch: "When we first started there were only 15 cast members and we were all in every episode. It was a community.
"Now there are some [cast members] who I hardly know their names.
"You go in and work with your family and do your scenes and go home.
"Some of the others, you see them in the green room for a cup of tea and then you don't see them for weeks."
He previously revealed how he wanted to be the first 100-year-old actor to be in a soap, telling Lorraine Kelly: “I’ve been in it for 58 years. I’m in the Guinness Book of Records.
"I’ve got the MBE for services to television. My goal now is to be the first centenarian still working in a serial.
"I think they want me as well. I’m very lucky to have the job. I really appreciate the job and I love it very much.
“The new producer will have his view [on where my storyline goes] and we’ll have a chat.”
Bill also revealed that during his long career his character has got through three wives and 23 girlfriends since joining the soap in 1960.
Host Lorraine Kelly asked him how he remains so youthful, to which he replied: “No, [I don’t feel my age]. Quite honestly, I still feel a bit immature.
“The ageing process is actually a belief system. The body renews its cells all the time.
"If you slow down, your cell renewal process will slow down – it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
The soap favourite attributed meditation to keeping him young
The star attributed his youthful appearance to meditation and explained: “The head is just a computer, if you let that run you, it all wants the detail… give yourself a tea break from life.
"You can leave those things for 10 minutes a day. Every human being is pure love. Even Donald Trump, inside he is pure love.
"People like that need more love than anybody else to get through. That beautiful being is imprisoned in that awful ego exterior.
"Every human being is born with love, as love. If you want to be true to yourself and really happy you want to be expressing [that].”
- Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights on ITV
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