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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. "

" I regard bed as my best friend. "

" 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. "

" You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't. "

" If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance. "

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

" I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven. "

" 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. "

" 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'm so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I'm not. "

" 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. "

" There is always one thing that turns you into an icon, an iconic image: in my case, a catsuit. But the icon 40 years later doesn't really want to know because it's not relevant to me. "

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

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

" 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 think you have to know someone to truly dislike them, don't you? That said, I'd shove most politicians into a cauldron and boil them up. "

" If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic. "

" I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "