Diana Rigg Quotes

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

I am ready to work in any industry whether its Bollywood, Hollywood, the digital platforms, South Indian film, or Bengali films. Wherever I get a good opportunity, I'll be there.

I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.

I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some point.

I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that, but I love movies and television, also, obviously.

Most of my work had been in theater, and I was jumping not just into television but 'L.A. Law,' which had all these megastars in it.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

When I was a little kid, I wanted to be, like, you know, a movie star, you know? Or, I always have interest in movie, you know? Because I like the visual aspect of the movies, et cetera.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

I want to do theater, TV, movies.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

I think it'd be cool to be in film and television, but I never thought that would happen.

I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.'

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I think a natural evolution for me would be to try to transfer over into the film and TV world and start playing different characters. Hopefully, that way, I can keep entertaining my fans that are fans of me, in different avenues and different spotlights. It's a natural evolution.

I'm an actor so I've been pursuing movies and I have some TV series ideas to pitch too.

The entertainment industry is so vast; that's why I got into it the first place.

I stopped getting films. So I had to move to television. I kept myself alive with stage shows.

The transition from TV to films wasn't overwhelming, since an actor's ultimate job is to act.

In TV, you get so many different opportunities, and especially, you get to try something different you don't get to do as a normal person, then great.

I love working in television and film, but it's completely different. The theater will always be my home. So I would love to be a lady who gets to work in all of the mediums and who calls the theater her home.