Years ago I was at a function, and I must have said something really rude to Paul Daniels the magician. I can't recall what I said, but I remember him looking utterly crestfallen. I'm not that sort of person, but I must have said something very cutting and belittling. Our paths haven't crossed since, but if they had, I would have said sorry to him.

Diana Rigg

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

Diana Rigg

I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me yet.

Diana Rigg

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

Diana Rigg

The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go.

Diana Rigg

I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form.

Diana Rigg

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

Diana Rigg

Once, when I was playing a nude scene in an indifferent play in New York, a critic wrote, 'Diana Rigg is built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses.' Do you think that's fair?

Diana Rigg

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.

Diana Rigg

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

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

Diana Rigg

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

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

Diana Rigg

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

Diana Rigg

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

Diana Rigg

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.

Diana Rigg

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

Diana Rigg

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

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

It's a question of economics. If you're paid the same as a man, which now you are in this profession, you're equal.

Diana Rigg

I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of philosophy about it. I didn't go into mourning.

Diana Rigg