"I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet."
"I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form."
"Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn."
"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."
"Yes, well, you are quite camp, so I guess that he could see the point of you."
"I've always been on the side of fully emancipated women with independent minds."
"I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did."
"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."
"If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is."
"The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go."
"If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic."
"I think women of my age are still attractive."
"I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"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 never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't."
"If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance."
"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 read prodigiously as a child, and I still do."
