Diana Rigg

Actress

1938-07-20

Books by Diana Rigg

No Turn Unstoned
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Quotes by Diana Rigg

I cry all the time. Remembrance Day in particular. In fact, anything to do with veterans makes me sob.
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I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form.
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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.
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Tabloid newspapers are very rich and hold huge funds to fight claims.
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It tends to be overlooked that many people are indirectly affected by thoughtless and cruel journalism.
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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.
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An awful lot of actors shy away from the uglier aspects of the human condition. They want to be liked, which is a cop-out. You've got to go for it.
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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.
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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?
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We have no companies now, not in the sense that I know, that nurture actors. It's very depressing that, given the money they get, the companies today don't number up in my estimation. They should be bringing on young talent, and they don't.
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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.
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Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.
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