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

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

" 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. "

" Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines. "

" Tabloid newspapers are very rich and hold huge funds to fight claims. "

" 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? "

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

" I have always thought of myself as rather a happy person. Apart from a few knocks along the way, I consider myself to have been extremely lucky. "

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

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

" I've been utterly and completely castigated from time to time. "

From Time To Time

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

" 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. "

" I've always been on the side of fully emancipated women with independent minds. "

" I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not. "

" It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't. "

" 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. "

" Years ago I was at a function, and I must have said something really rude to Paul Daniels the magician. I can't recall what I said, but I remember him looking utterly crestfallen. I'm not that sort of person, but I must have said something very cutting and belittling. Our paths haven't crossed since, but if they had, I would have said sorry to him. "

" I was nourished and nurtured at Stratford as a very young actress. They guided me and forgave me! "

" I love 'Mastermind'. It's touching that people spend so much time learning. I do have quite good general knowledge, but I wouldn't consider going on the show. I also like watching 'Only Connect.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I started, TV was regarded as something that wasn't as great as film or theatre or radio, but it has proved to have far greater powers than those. "

" 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. "