105 Quotes by Diana Rigg

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

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

Working keeps me young. Anything that exercises the brain like learning lines.

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

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.

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.

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

If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.