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" 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. "

Diana Rigg

I Am

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

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Diana Rigg

Left

Hope

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

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

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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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

Diana Rigg

Rely

Shot

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

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

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Successful

Generation

" 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. "

" 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? "

Diana Rigg

Lose

Why

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "