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" When my marriage broke up, I went to three separate therapists, and each was worse than the last. I can only speak for myself. There are other people it's been incredibly useful for, but not me. "

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Diana Rigg

Age

Happen

Grateful

" 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. "

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

" I get tetchy with myself when I forget. I also get tetchy when directors ask you for take after take after take after take for no apparent reason. I've heard Maggie Smith gets tetchy for the same reason. "

" 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. "

" I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people. "

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

" I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet. "

Diana Rigg

Left

Hope

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form. "

" 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. "

" I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob. "

" 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. "

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

" If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. But if it were said that I hadn't fulfilled my potential as an actress, I would understand the reasons why. "

" I only know how to play bad mums because they're the best parts. "

" I'm in a position to do exactly what I want. I travel quite a lot. I read prodigiously. I go to the theater, to concerts. London is a wonderful city to live in. "

" 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? "

Diana Rigg

Lose

Why

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

Diana Rigg

Everything

Done

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

" 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

" It may be a masculine attitude to take lovers, but it's definitely prevalent. I'm certainly not the oldest person doing it - not that I'm doing it right now, but when I was. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Diana Rigg

You

Always

" The opportunity to be bizarre - I am bizarre, aren't I? - is just so wonderful, isn't it? "

Diana Rigg

I Am

Just

" 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. "

Diana Rigg

Man

Down