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" The opportunity to be bizarre - I am bizarre, aren't I? - is just so wonderful, isn't it? "
Diana Rigg
I Am
Am
Just
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" 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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" I don't have it in for critics, and I never have. "
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" 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. "
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" Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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Boring
Working
Off
" I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people. "
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" '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. "
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Me
" 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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Never
Philosophy
Go
" I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven't had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I'm not prepared to do it. "
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Myself
Age
Beauty
" 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. "
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Monkey
Long
Business
" 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.' "
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Love
Good
Knowledge
" I rely upon the directors to fill me in before a shot. "
Diana Rigg
Rely
Shot
Me
" I think women of my age are still attractive. "
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Age
Still
Attractive
" Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you. "
Diana Rigg
He
Point
See
" If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is. "
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Man
Pay
Respect
" 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
Me
" I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays. "
Diana Rigg
Successful
More
Generation
" 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. "
Diana Rigg
Sorry
Said
Remember
" I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form. "
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Very
Form
Made
" If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. "
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Man
Me
Down
" We have no companies now, not in the sense that I know, that nurture actors. It's very depressing that, given the money they get, the companies today don't number up in my estimation. They should be bringing on young talent, and they don't. "
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Now
Talent
Young
" Mostly what you remember and enjoy are the scenes you played with people. And quite often, they're the combative scenes! "
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People
Enjoy
Quite
" I was nourished and nurtured at Stratford as a very young actress. They guided me and forgave me! "
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Me
Young
Very
" I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not. "
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Portrayed
Tough
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" It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world. "
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Powerful
World
Television
" I think Thespis just wanted to be a solo player, you know? "
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Just
Know
Solo
" There was a guy called Carlos Thompson, who was I think Argentinian, and he was doing a series called 'Sentimental Agent'. That was the very first thing that I did. It was supposed to be taking place in some exotic location, but in actual fact, it was Chertsey with a few shivering potted palms. "
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Doing
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" '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. "
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