Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls. "

" I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed. "

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" 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 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. "

" When my marriage broke up, I went to three separate therapists, and each was worse than the last. I can only speak for myself. There are other people it's been incredibly useful for, but not me. "

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

" 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. "

" Once, when I was playing a nude scene in an indifferent play in New York, a critic wrote, 'Diana Rigg is built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses.' Do you think that's fair? "

" George Lazenby was ill-equipped. It's not for nothing that they didn't offer him any sequels. "

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

" Do you know, I have no idea how I got 'The Avengers'? I'd left the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I was one of a long list of girls, and got it on my audition. "

" The opportunity to be bizarre - I am bizarre, aren't I? - is just so wonderful, isn't it? "

" 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. "

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

" Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play where I felt sorry for the critics. "

" 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. "

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

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

" They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. "

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