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" 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. "

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" 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! "

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

" 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? "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "