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All Quotes by author - Diana Rigg
" 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. "
I Am
You
See
" 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. "
Want
You
Shy
" 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. "
Boring
Working
Off
" 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. "
Play
Sorry
Feel
" 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. "
Left
Company
You
" '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. "
Game
Know
Me
" George Lazenby was ill-equipped. It's not for nothing that they didn't offer him any sequels. "
Any
Him
Sequels
" I am not aware of fans, because I don't live that sort of life, but I am awfully grateful. "
Aware
Grateful
I Am
" I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays. "
Successful
More
Generation
" 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. "
Eating
Wine
Smoke
" I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob. "
Day
Cry
Veterans
" 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. "
Mail
Back
Fan
" I'd love to have done more film, but you can't have everything. "
Everything
Done
More
" 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. "
Years
Interviews
Play
" I don't have it in for critics, and I never have. "
Critics
Never
" I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre. "
Critics
Much
Part
" 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. "
Perfect
Mind
You
" 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
Me
Down
" 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. "
Feel
Boring
Dare
" 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. "
Why
Understand
Mother
" If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic. "
Yourself
You
Serious
" If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance. "
Imagination
Lonely
You
" If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. "
Man
Pay
Respect
" 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. "
Forget
You
Same
" 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. "
Lucky
Thought
Myself
" 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. "
Myself
Age
Beauty
" I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet. "
Me
Left
Hope
" I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven. "
Loved
Own
Naughty
" 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.' "
Love
Good
Knowledge
" I love women but am aware we're dangerous and deeply competitive, although I gave up being competitive long ago. "
Up
Women
Dangerous
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