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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.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Bernard Changed Critics Depend Give Glimpse Got Happened His Kenneth Most Notices Plays Radically Result Terrible Theatre Us Who Writers Young Young Writers

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I'm really grateful for 'Game of Thrones'. It's something wonderful to happen to an actress of my age, and Dubrovnik is astonishingly beautiful.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Actress Age Beautiful Game Game Of Thrones Grateful Happen Really Something Wonderful

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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

Topics: Across Am Floating Images Know Me Old People Screen See Terrible Then Were Who You I Am

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There is always one thing that turns you into an icon, an iconic image: in my case, a catsuit. But the icon 40 years later doesn't really want to know because it's not relevant to me.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Always Because Case Icon Iconic Image Know Later Me One Thing Really Relevant Thing Turns Want Years You

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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.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Always Am Ashamed Avengers Because Bores Did Early Good Grateful Me Might Now Only Photographs Some Stage Stardom Television Theatre Those Thought Too Truth Truth Is Two Well Years

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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.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Confess Drink Eat Eating Habits Horrified Hungry Lot Might People Smoke Things Wine Wrong Wrong Things

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I regard bed as my best friend.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Bed Best Best Friend Friend Regard

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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.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Against Broadway Centre Drama Gave Go Lecture Many Perils Rehabilitation Sundays Them Therapy Used Working Years Years Ago

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When my marriage broke up, I went to three separate therapists, and each was worse than the last. I can only speak for myself. There are other people it's been incredibly useful for, but not me.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Been Broke Each Incredibly Last Marriage Me Myself Only Other People Separate Speak Than Therapists Three Up Useful Worse I Can

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If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted.

~Diana Rigg

Topics: Back Bag Chair Delighted Door Down Holds Man Me Old Open Sit

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actress

Born: July 20th, 1938

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