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

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" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "