Honor Blackman Quotes

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• In fact, I’ll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

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

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Birth:	22nd August, 1925
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress

About

Honor Blackman was born in Plaistow, Newham, London, England. She is an English actress. She started training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1940. She known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers, Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, Julia Daggett in Shalako and Hera in Jason and the Argonauts. She is also notable for her role as Laura West in the ITV sitcom The Upper Hand. Her role in several films include: Quartet, Diamond City, The Rainbow Jacket, Suspended Alibi, The Secret of My Success, The Virgin and the Gypsy, To Walk with Lions, and Cockneys vs Zombies.

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