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I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob.

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Fact, Veterans, Remembrance, Sob

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.

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Love, Feel, Very, Feminist

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

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Young, Actress, Very, Nourished

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.

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Mind, Greek, Still, Complacent

I step into a character in my public life. People who don't make that distinction are dooooomed.

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Life, People, Distinction, Public Life

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.

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Young, Depend, Bernard, Notices

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.

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Smoke, Habits, Might, Wrong Things

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.

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Young, Very, Given, Nurture

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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Play, Fair, Scene, Brick

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.

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Lucky, Always, Been, Happy Person

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

Old, Screen, Images, Floating

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

Myself, Reason, Smith, Apparent

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

Older Brother, Very, Had, Aeroplanes

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

Want, Like, Could, Why Not

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.

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Other, Forwards, Actual, Saturdays

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

- Diana Rigg

New, Like, Years And Years, Baton

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

Doing, Some, Very, Sentimental

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

Human Condition, Which, Uglier

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

I Remember, Bed, Very, Blowing

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

Idea, Audition, List, Avengers

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.

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Good, Thought, Some, Avengers

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

- Diana Rigg

Star, Old, Could, Telly

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

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Me, Blonde, Were, Telly

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.

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I Remember, Very, Had, Crossed

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

- Diana Rigg

Her, Role, Particularly, Defined

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

Think, Dislike, I Think, Shove

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

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Yes, Could, Point, Camp

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

- Diana Rigg

Cruel, Overlooked, Journalism

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

Love, Learning, Show, General Knowledge

I've been utterly and completely castigated from time to time.

- Diana Rigg

Time, Been, Utterly, From Time To Time

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