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" You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, as each new actor comes to it. "

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" 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. "

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

" I don't have it in for critics, and I never have. "

" There were no prototypes for me - the telly was full of little blonde juveniles. "

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

" 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. "

" If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic. "

" Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play where I felt sorry for the critics. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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" 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. "

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

" 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 politicians misjudge our intelligence. We can, and do, see through them. But I quite enjoy watching political programmes because they get the heart going. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not. "

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

" 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. "

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