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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television. "

" 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'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 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain. "

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

" 'Medea' is an enormous challenge for an actor physically, mentally, emotionally. You have to dig very, very deep, and to work, your performance has to be very personal. "