Honor Blackman Quotations

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.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

There have been plenty of very bare hotels with couples humping next door. I don't stay in very grand hotels.

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.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

I have a Calvin Klein travel handbag with four compartments that fold up. You can keep your tickets, passport and documents all together.

When I read the script I thought it was so much fun, and it?s the best soap in the country

It was tremendous fun while it lasted, but I didn't want to get into a rut, and I think there was the danger of this, had I continued.

In some 50 Avengers shows I got kissed only once, and then the script called for me to dump the man on his ear for getting fresh with me.

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

Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable.