105 Quotes by Diana Rigg

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.

You'll always be close to somebody that you worked with very intimately for so long, and you become really fond of each other.

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 think Thespis just wanted to be a solo player, you know?

I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays.

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.

I would like to keep working forever. As long as they will have me.

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.

If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.