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" 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. "

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" To all the younglings I come across in 'Game of Thrones' who suddenly find themselves well known, I say the theatre is your best friend - they will remember you. "

Diana Rigg

Friend

Best Friend

Theatre

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

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

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

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

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

Diana Rigg

Critics

Never

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

Diana Rigg

I Am

Just

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

" 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. "

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

Diana Rigg

Left

Hope

" I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not perfect. Nobody tells you about the pain. "

" It's particularly exhausting because Medea is defined by her determination. The role is all about endeavour. "

" 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. "

Diana Rigg

Got

Young

" 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? "

" I rely upon the directors to fill me in before a shot. "

Diana Rigg

Rely

Shot

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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 regard bed as my best friend. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Diana Rigg

Never

Philosophy

" I read prodigiously as a child, and I still do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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