- [on her role in Blake's 7 (1978)] I'd been a masturbatory fantasy for an entire generation of young men. I mean, that made a girl feel good.
- I got divorced. I just wanted to get away. I joined the Actors Studio because I wasn't working and so I was going crazy. I didn't have a work permit. I knew I had to do something, so I went to the Actors Studio and auditioned and passed and was accepted, which meant I could work there. So it was a way of saving my sanity.
- I went straight off to America the day after we finished the show and spent some time in New York and Mississippi and then went out to Los Angeles and I saw Terry Nation when I was in Hollywood. He doesn't want to be in England any more. You can understand. It takes so long to get anything done here. Anyway, I came back from there and I was offered a film which I turned down. It was vulgar, cheap and exploitative.
- On fellow co-star Paul Darrow I'm very instinctive in the way I work - You ask Paul Darrow (Avon in Blake's 7 (1978)). I love working with him. We work together very, very well. Paul always knows what he's doing in front of a camera; technically, he's quite brilliant and I rely on him for that. He will make sure I'm in the light or not blocking myself. He lets me go completely intuitively and he responds to that. It's like a wonderful marriage: very rare and wonderful when it happens.
- Well, I love New York passionately, but Los Angeles is like a planet all on its own. It's hard enough to cope if you're a man. It's virtually impossible if you're a woman. Also, I didn't get a work permit from working with Strasberg (Lee Strasberg). I just became a member of the Studio. It took about three years to get my work permit, by which time I was so homesick I just had to come home.
- The relationships in Blake's 7 (1978) are where it's at. I don't think there's anything interesting about somebody standing there saying Standard by ten. It's about relationships. That's what life is about, and that's what makes it interesting. Paul (Paul Darrow) and I had developed a relationship for Avon and Servalan. I felt there was a fascination, a mutual need, and a form of love... They satisfied something in each other. They were both creatures of high intelligence, and if you're highly intelligent, there aren't that many people to play with. We all need somebody to play with.
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