Lalla Ward Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

As for watching it, I never really did as a child because we didn't watch all that much television so I pretended I did at the interview.

At the end of that season, I decided to leave half-way through the next season. I think that is eleven stories.

Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.

I came into the series quite late, which was quite nerve wracking. The cast were incredibly kind and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

I draw animals, so I'm useful to my biologist husband because I can chuck out a few illustrations for slides for lectures, and things like that.

I enjoy playing it, it's fun, and I love doing audio stuff because normally I don't have to be on cameras like this.

I enjoyed the promotion with K9 on my introduction day.

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

I had been away in France because I didn't want to act and also I wanted a rest.

I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.

I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

I was very fond of Graham because he got me the job. They are very much so different.

No, the maxim is not true, robotic dogs are definitely the thing to work with, K9, aren't you. Probably better than real dogs I dare say.

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.

Thankfully, we were on the same level as each other. He'd wanted to write me out in a special story halfway through the next series.

We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.