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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Hope
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Nov 07, 2020

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

Made
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Nov 07, 2020

I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form.

Generation
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Nov 07, 2020

Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.

Inside
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Nov 07, 2020

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

Nov 07, 2020

Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you.

Independent
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Nov 07, 2020

I've always been on the side of fully emancipated women with independent minds.

Nov 07, 2020

I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned.

Nov 07, 2020

If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go.

Nov 07, 2020

If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.

Attractive
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Nov 07, 2020

I think women of my age are still attractive.

Portrayed
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not.

First Thing
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Nov 07, 2020

There was a guy called Carlos Thompson, who was I think Argentinian, and he was doing a series called 'Sentimental Agent'. That was the very first thing that I did. It was supposed to be taking place in some exotic location, but in actual fact, it was Chertsey with a few shivering potted palms.

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

Do you know, I have no idea how I got 'The Avengers'? I'd left the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I was one of a long list of girls, and got it on my audition.

Become
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Nov 07, 2020

You'll always be close to somebody that you worked with very intimately for so long, and you become really fond of each other.

Days
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Nov 07, 2020

In actual fact, I doubled 'Twelfth Night' and 'The Avengers'. I was going backwards and forwards to Stratford. I played matinees Wednesday, matinee and evenings Saturdays, and the other days of the week, I was filming in Elstree.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I think Thespis just wanted to be a solo player, you know?

Generation
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Nov 07, 2020

I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don't wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn't it?

Doing
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Nov 07, 2020

It may be a masculine attitude to take lovers, but it's definitely prevalent. I'm certainly not the oldest person doing it - not that I'm doing it right now, but when I was.

Get
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Nov 07, 2020

I never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't.

Imagination
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Nov 07, 2020

If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.

Game
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Nov 07, 2020

To all the younglings I come across in 'Game of Thrones' who suddenly find themselves well known, I say the theatre is your best friend - they will remember you.

Nov 07, 2020

I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do.

Forgave
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Nov 07, 2020

I was nourished and nurtured at Stratford as a very young actress. They guided me and forgave me!

Money
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Nov 07, 2020

We have no companies now, not in the sense that I know, that nurture actors. It's very depressing that, given the money they get, the companies today don't number up in my estimation. They should be bringing on young talent, and they don't.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I rely upon the directors to fill me in before a shot.

Loved
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Nov 07, 2020

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

Home
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I'm not.

Thank You
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Nov 07, 2020

I think I'm a mousepad. I don't want to be a mousepad, but I'm a mousepad. I'm also a screen saver, thank you very much. It's weird.

Old Days
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Nov 07, 2020

In the old days, a star was someone up there - you know, Greta Garbo - but a telly star was somebody you could approach.

Fan
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Nov 07, 2020

I didn't know what to do with the fan mail. I had a little mini, and I used to put it at the back of my mini, and it grew and grew.

Game
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Nov 07, 2020

'Game of Thrones' is wonderful. My theory is they employ all these British actors because, one, they are like me and grateful. Two, we turn up, and we know our lines. Three, we don't demand a 60 ft. Winnebago and PA, and four, largely we are very uncomplaining.

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of philosophy about it. I didn't go into mourning.

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun.

Learning
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Nov 07, 2020

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

Intelligence
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Nov 07, 2020

I think politicians misjudge our intelligence. We can, and do, see through them. But I quite enjoy watching political programmes because they get the heart going.

Bond
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Nov 07, 2020

I wouldn't like to see a female Bond, because we wouldn't want to lose the Bond girls. But we could have a lesbian Bond - why not?

Nov 07, 2020

When I started, TV was regarded as something that wasn't as great as film or theatre or radio, but it has proved to have far greater powers than those.

Powerful
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Nov 07, 2020

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't have it in for critics, and I never have.

Play
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Nov 07, 2020

Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play where I felt sorry for the critics.

Nov 07, 2020

We depend on the critics to give us a glimpse of what happened. Bernard Shaw championed Ibsen, who got the most terrible notices for his plays. Kenneth Tynan championed young writers, and as a result, the theatre has changed radically.

Beautiful
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm really grateful for 'Game of Thrones'. It's something wonderful to happen to an actress of my age, and Dubrovnik is astonishingly beautiful.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what you are. I know who I am, but these people who see me as I was then don't.

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

There is always one thing that turns you into an icon, an iconic image: in my case, a catsuit. But the icon 40 years later doesn't really want to know because it's not relevant to me.

Grateful
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Nov 07, 2020

Some of those early photographs of me might as well be sepia. It's always thought that I disclaim television and am too theatre, but the truth is 'The Avengers' bores me now. I was grateful because it catapulted me into stage stardom. It was good. I'm not ashamed of it. But I only did it for two years.

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

I confess I do a lot of the wrong things: I smoke, and I drink wine, and people might be horrified at my eating habits - I eat when I'm hungry, and if I'm not, I don't.

Best
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Nov 07, 2020

I regard bed as my best friend.

Drama
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Nov 07, 2020

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking; I gave them drama therapy.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

When my marriage broke up, I went to three separate therapists, and each was worse than the last. I can only speak for myself. There are other people it's been incredibly useful for, but not me.

Down
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Nov 07, 2020

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

It's a question of economics. If you're paid the same as a man, which now you are in this profession, you're equal.

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

I love women but am aware we're dangerous and deeply competitive, although I gave up being competitive long ago.

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, as each new actor comes to it.

Deep
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Nov 07, 2020

'Medea' is an enormous challenge for an actor physically, mentally, emotionally. You have to dig very, very deep, and to work, your performance has to be very personal.

Nov 07, 2020

Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.

Because
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Nov 07, 2020

It's particularly exhausting because Medea is defined by her determination. The role is all about endeavour.

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I have always thought of myself as rather a happy person. Apart from a few knocks along the way, I consider myself to have been extremely lucky.

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't generally give interviews unless I have to promote a play and had sworn years ago, having been bitten once too often, never to be interviewed by a woman again.

Journalism
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Nov 07, 2020

It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.

Hold
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Nov 07, 2020

Tabloid newspapers are very rich and hold huge funds to fight claims.

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob.

Boring
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Nov 07, 2020

Classes were incredibly boring. I took to dreaming. They took to punishing me. I was always working off punishments for not doing what I was supposed to do.

Normal
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Nov 07, 2020

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

Inside
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Nov 07, 2020

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out.

Nov 07, 2020

If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. But if it were said that I hadn't fulfilled my potential as an actress, I would understand the reasons why.

People
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Nov 07, 2020

It was an extremely overdramatic play called 'Wild Decembers'. It was all about the Brontes, and they all, one after the other, died of tuberculosis. I remember taking every opportunity to cough over other people's lines.

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing all sorts of stuff that I've never played before while the mind - and the body - still functions.

Enjoy
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Nov 07, 2020

Mostly what you remember and enjoy are the scenes you played with people. And quite often, they're the combative scenes!

Go
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm in a position to do exactly what I want. I travel quite a lot. I read prodigiously. I go to the theater, to concerts. London is a wonderful city to live in.

Good
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Nov 07, 2020

Television has taught me an economy of style I didn't have before. I feel it has done me nothing but good.

Just
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Nov 07, 2020

The opportunity to be bizarre - I am bizarre, aren't I? - is just so wonderful, isn't it?

Game
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm an old bag for the most part on 'Game Of Thrones', so it's so lovely to be glamorous - as glamorous as you can be at my age!

Myself
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Nov 07, 2020

I get tetchy with myself when I forget. I also get tetchy when directors ask you for take after take after take after take for no apparent reason. I've heard Maggie Smith gets tetchy for the same reason.

Best
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Nov 07, 2020

I only know how to play bad mums because they're the best parts.

Nov 07, 2020

An awful lot of actors shy away from the uglier aspects of the human condition. They want to be liked, which is a cop-out. You've got to go for it.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I'd love to have done more film, but you can't have everything.

Full
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Nov 07, 2020

There were no prototypes for me - the telly was full of little blonde juveniles.

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

I was very, very young, living in India. I'd been put to bed in the afternoon, and I had that lovely feeling you have when you're about to nod off. I remember the yellow curtains of the room blowing in the wind and feeling blissfully happy and content.

Brother
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Nov 07, 2020

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.

Nov 07, 2020

I think you have to know someone to truly dislike them, don't you? That said, I'd shove most politicians into a cauldron and boil them up.

Person
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Nov 07, 2020

Years ago I was at a function, and I must have said something really rude to Paul Daniels the magician. I can't recall what I said, but I remember him looking utterly crestfallen. I'm not that sort of person, but I must have said something very cutting and belittling. Our paths haven't crossed since, but if they had, I would have said sorry to him.

Feel
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Nov 07, 2020

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been in the business 60 years, and it's taken me this long to play a scene with a monkey. That's what happens if you stick around.

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

You have to have the same power to lead the life you want as a man does, and that means earning the same amount of money. We still have a battle on our hands with that.

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain.

Beauty
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Nov 07, 2020

I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven't had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I'm not prepared to do it.

Nov 07, 2020

The first time Rachie and I will be working together is on an episode of 'Doctor Who' specially written for us by Mark Gatiss. How lucky is that?

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

I am not aware of fans, because I don't live that sort of life, but I am awfully grateful.

Peace
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Nov 07, 2020

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

Home
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Nov 07, 2020

It would be nice if they didn't make me get up at 5 A.M. for a 12-hour day. My caravan is never big enough to lie down. There is no little doze. You are knackered by the time you get home. Knackered.

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

I would like to keep working forever. As long as they will have me.

From Time To Time
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Nov 07, 2020

I've been utterly and completely castigated from time to time.

New
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Nov 07, 2020

Once, when I was playing a nude scene in an indifferent play in New York, a critic wrote, 'Diana Rigg is built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses.' Do you think that's fair?

Mean
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.

Passion
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Nov 07, 2020

There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't.

Him
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Nov 07, 2020

George Lazenby was ill-equipped. It's not for nothing that they didn't offer him any sequels.

Knowledge
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Nov 07, 2020

I love 'Mastermind'. It's touching that people spend so much time learning. I do have quite good general knowledge, but I wouldn't consider going on the show. I also like watching 'Only Connect.'

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