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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 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. "

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

Diana Rigg

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" I didn't know what to do with the fan mail. I had a little mini, and I used to put it at the back of my mini, and it grew and grew. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm really grateful for 'Game of Thrones'. It's something wonderful to happen to an actress of my age, and Dubrovnik is astonishingly beautiful. "

" There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Diana Rigg

Find

Life

" 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. "

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

Diana Rigg

Women

Dangerous

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

Diana Rigg

Long

Will

" 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? "

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

" The first time Rachie and I will be working together is on an episode of 'Doctor Who' specially written for us by Mark Gatiss. How lucky is that? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An awful lot of actors shy away from the uglier aspects of the human condition. They want to be liked, which is a cop-out. You've got to go for it. "

" '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. "

Diana Rigg

Game

Know

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

" Television has taught me an economy of style I didn't have before. I feel it has done me nothing but good. "

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

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

Diana Rigg

Everything

Done

" I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays. "

Diana Rigg

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" I regard bed as my best friend. "

" You'll always be close to somebody that you worked with very intimately for so long, and you become really fond of each other. "

" 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. "