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" 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. "

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

" 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? "

Working Together

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

" '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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" I think women of my age are still attractive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

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

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

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

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

From Time To Time

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "