Quotes by Honor Blackman

• Really, in a way, I took over the male role.
• Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.
• Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.
• I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.
• I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.
• I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.
• I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.
• In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.
• No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.
• South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.
• There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.
• My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.