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" I'm so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I'm not. "
Diana Rigg
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" The opportunity to be bizarre - I am bizarre, aren't I? - is just so wonderful, isn't it? "
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" 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. "
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" There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don't wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn't it? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines. "
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" 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? "
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" They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. "
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" 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. "
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Same
" I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not. "
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" I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of philosophy about it. I didn't go into mourning. "
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" I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet. "
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" Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn. "
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" It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism. "
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" 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. "
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