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" 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. "

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

" '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. "

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" Television has taught me an economy of style I didn't have before. I feel it has done me nothing but good. "

" 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. "

" 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 regard bed as my best friend. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There were no prototypes for me - the telly was full of little blonde juveniles. "

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