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" 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. "

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

" It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world. "

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

" I love women but am aware we're dangerous and deeply competitive, although I gave up being competitive long ago. "

" It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I regard bed as my best friend. "

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

" I was nourished and nurtured at Stratford as a very young actress. They guided me and forgave me! "

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

" I'm really grateful for 'Game of Thrones'. It's something wonderful to happen to an actress of my age, and Dubrovnik is astonishingly beautiful. "

" I would like to keep working forever. As long as they will have me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

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

From Time To Time

" '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 may be a masculine attitude to take lovers, but it's definitely prevalent. I'm certainly not the oldest person doing it - not that I'm doing it right now, but when I was. "