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

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" Tabloid newspapers are very rich and hold huge funds to fight claims. "

" I think women of my age are still attractive. "

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

" 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 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 don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I think I'm a mousepad. I don't want to be a mousepad, but I'm a mousepad. I'm also a screen saver, thank you very much. It's weird. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "