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" You'll always be close to somebody that you worked with very intimately for so long, and you become really fond of each other. "
Diana Rigg
Somebody
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Long
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" I love 'Mastermind'. It's touching that people spend so much time learning. I do have quite good general knowledge, but I wouldn't consider going on the show. I also like watching 'Only Connect.' "
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" I've been in the business 60 years, and it's taken me this long to play a scene with a monkey. That's what happens if you stick around. "
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" There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun. "
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" I regard bed as my best friend. "
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" It's particularly exhausting because Medea is defined by her determination. The role is all about endeavour. "
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" I love women but am aware we're dangerous and deeply competitive, although I gave up being competitive long ago. "
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" I don't have it in for critics, and I never have. "
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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. "
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" I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" Mostly what you remember and enjoy are the scenes you played with people. And quite often, they're the combative scenes! "
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" Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you. "
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" Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea. "
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" I'm an old bag for the most part on 'Game Of Thrones', so it's so lovely to be glamorous - as glamorous as you can be at my age! "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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