Diana Rigg Quotes

I don't think I've ever been a fashion item, I don't think I was as a player.

I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.

On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'.

I'm used to the public knowing me, knowing about me.

I am not aware I am an icon.

Personally, I don't think of myself as a style icon. It's basically because the public loves me so much.

People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's what they wanna call me. If anybody calls me a female Quincy Jones, that's way, way complimentary. That's something I'll cherish for life.

I try really hard to separate myself from other celebrity brands.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

If people see me in some sort of niche, then that's fine. As long as it's not The Naked Guy, I don't care.

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.