Quotes from Diana Rigg

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.

George Lazenby was ill-equipped. It's not for nothing that they didn't offer him any sequels.

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.

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

These days, it's perfectly normal to move between the theatre and television.

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

'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.

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

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

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.

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

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

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

I love women but am aware we're dangerous and deeply competitive, although I gave up being competitive long ago.

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.

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

I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.

I'm so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I'm not.

Tabloid newspapers are very rich and hold huge funds to fight claims.

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.

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.

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

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