Honor Blackman

“I hate this age of easy celebrity. It's ridiculous.”

“What's the point of being old if you can't be a little naughty?”

“I'm a militant feminist, and I have been for most of my life. Or at least since I was 13.”

“Life isn't about learning your lines. It's about learning how to live.”

“I loathe the idea of being 'the little woman'.”

“Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos. I have never been a bimbo.”

“I just feel that you should not have to be a man to be a success.”

“I think that I am a good-time girl. I'm not a party girl.”

“You could have a man who was a classy man, a constant man, a man of integrity, and that was the attraction.”

“I'm just a jobbing actress. I've always been a jobbing actress.”

“I approve of a man who can be a man, as long as he's a gentleman.”

“I think sex is overrated. I'm not a great expert on it.”

“A Bond girl is a woman who is not a man's plaything.”

“I think age is a very overrated thing. I think the fun of it is just to carry on as if you are not.”

“I'm not a box-office star. I'm a long-distance runner.”