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

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" '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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 confess I do a lot of the wrong things: I smoke, and I drink wine, and people might be horrified at my eating habits - I eat when I'm hungry, and if I'm not, I don't. "

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

" 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. "

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

From Time To Time

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

" I've always been on the side of fully emancipated women with independent minds. "

" You'll always be close to somebody that you worked with very intimately for so long, and you become really fond of each other. "

" It's particularly exhausting because Medea is defined by her determination. The role is all about endeavour. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. "

" Mostly what you remember and enjoy are the scenes you played with people. And quite often, they're the combative scenes! "

" It would be nice if they didn't make me get up at 5 A.M. for a 12-hour day. My caravan is never big enough to lie down. There is no little doze. You are knackered by the time you get home. Knackered. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "