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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I regard bed as my best friend. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't generally give interviews unless I have to promote a play and had sworn years ago, having been bitten once too often, never to be interviewed by a woman again. "

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

" 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. "