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" 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. "

Diana Rigg

Day

Lie

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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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Philosophy

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

" 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. "

" Some of those early photographs of me might as well be sepia. It's always thought that I disclaim television and am too theatre, but the truth is 'The Avengers' bores me now. I was grateful because it catapulted me into stage stardom. It was good. I'm not ashamed of it. But I only did it for two years. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Got

Young

" The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go. "

Diana Rigg

Find

Life

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