Quotes by Diana Rigg - Page 2

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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Getting Old
Not Perfect
Pain
Downstairs
Except
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I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Reverence
Nowadays
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Dislike
Boil
Shove
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I love being directed. Because it's another thought, it's another fresh idea. You're so grateful for an original idea that you haven't had.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Grateful
Ideas
Love Is
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Happy Person
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I'm really grateful for 'Game of Thrones'. It's something wonderful to happen to an actress of my age, and Dubrovnik is astonishingly beautiful.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Grateful
Game Of Thrones
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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?
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Doctor Who
Mark
Working Together
Episode
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Human Condition
Shy
Condition
Aspects
Awful Lot
Cop-Out
Liked
Go For It
Uglier
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I've been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don't wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn't it?
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Forever
Offensive
Single
Sound
Wish
Minute
Oh God
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Powers
Proved
Regarded
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Critics
Rubbish
Sorry
Awful Lot
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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 / Film Actress
Inevitable
Mourning
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I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Dare
Dependent
Love Man Feel
Assaulted
Defensive
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Classes
Dreaming
Punishing
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Avengers
Do You Know
No Idea
Royal
Audition
List
Long List
Shakespeare
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Travel
Concerts
London
Position
Theater
Exactly
Exactly What
Quite A Lot
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You can't actually legislate what goes on in people's minds and their attitudes, but you certainly can legislate for parity where pay and salaries are concerned.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Parity
Attitudes
Legislate
Salaries
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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 / Film Actress
Best Friend
Well Known
Best Your Game
Game Of Thrones
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Programmes
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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. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Men
Doors
Stupid
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I don't generally give interviews unless I have to promote a play and had sworn years ago, having been bitten once too often, never to be interviewed by a woman again.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Bitten
Promote
Sworn
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I confess I do a lot of the wrong things: I smoke, and I drink wine, and people might be horrified at my eating habits - I eat when I'm hungry, and if I'm not, I don't.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Hungry
Smoke
Wine
Wrong Things
Confess
Habits
Horrified
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'Medea' is an enormous challenge for an actor physically, mentally, emotionally. You have to dig very, very deep, and to work, your performance has to be very personal.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Enormous
Mentally
Dig
Emotionally
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Amount
Battle
Earning
Hands
Life Power Money
Lead
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Lovers
Masculine
Oldest
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All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what you are. I know who I am, but these people who see me as I was then don't.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Floating
Terrible
I Am Me People
Across
Chasm
Me I Am People
Images
Screen
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Predetermined
Dictate
Fates
Tragedies
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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 / Film Actress
One Thing
Relevant
Turns
Always Me Know
Case
Me Always Know
Icon
Image
Later
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Broadway
Centre
Drama
Rehabilitation
Therapy
Years Ago
Lecture
Perils
Sundays
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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?
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
New York
Built
Diana
Flying
Indifferent
Scene
Brick
Critic
Fair
Few
York
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Broke
Therapists
Useful
Incredibly
Worse
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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.'
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Knowledge
General Knowledge
Love Time Good
General
Connect
Consider
Spend
So Much Time
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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 / Film Actress
Time Home Me
Be Nice
Big Enough
By The Time
Caravan
Lie
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Heartbroken
Fulfil
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Maggie
Apparent
Smith
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They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Careers
Difficult
Profession
Ready
Increasingly
Parts
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It was an extremely overdramatic play called 'Wild Decembers'. It was all about the Brontes, and they all, one after the other, died of tuberculosis. I remember taking every opportunity to cough over other people's lines.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Tuberculosis
Wild
Cough
Every Opportunity
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Complacent
Promise
Classics
Functions
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Avengers
Backwards
Night
Wednesday
Actual
Played
Days
Filming
Evenings
Fact
Forwards
Saturdays
Stratford
Twelfth
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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 / Film Actress
Critics
Glimpse
Young Writers
Bernard
Depend
Notices
Radically
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Admire
Compare
Discipline
Jane
Prepared
Degree
Fonda
Jane Fonda
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We have no companies now, not in the sense that I know, that nurture actors. It's very depressing that, given the money they get, the companies today don't number up in my estimation. They should be bringing on young talent, and they don't.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Depressing
Estimation
Nurture
Young Talent
Bringing
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Afternoon
Curtains
Lovely
Wind
Yellow
Blissfully
Blowing
Nod
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'Game of Thrones' is wonderful. My theory is they employ all these British actors because, one, they are like me and grateful. Two, we turn up, and we know our lines. Three, we don't demand a 60 ft. Winnebago and PA, and four, largely we are very uncomplaining.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
British
Demand
Grateful
Lines
Theory
British Actors
Game Me Know
Employ
Game Of Thrones
Largely
Pa
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I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Jealous
Adventurous
Aeroplanes
Dolls
Imaginative
Manners
Older Brother
Always Me Remember
Hugh
Owning
Toy
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The thing I absolutely hate is when directors don't know what they want, and then they ask you to do it this way, and then maybe that way, and maybe that way, because they haven't made up their minds what they want. So you're running around in circles trying to give them what they want.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Running
Circles
Hate
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There was a guy called Carlos Thompson, who was I think Argentinian, and he was doing a series called 'Sentimental Agent'. That was the very first thing that I did. It was supposed to be taking place in some exotic location, but in actual fact, it was Chertsey with a few shivering potted palms.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Exotic
Location
Sentimental
Actual
Agent
First Thing
Thompson
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Ashamed
Avengers
Bores
Stardom
Truth Good Always
Truth Good Me
Photographs
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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.
Diana Rigg / Film Actress
Cutting
Function
Magician
Rude
Sorry
Years Ago
Crossed
Paths
Recall
Utterly
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