Daily quote by Michael Parkinson

• Parkinson: [From his introduction, quoting a theatre critic] She is especially telling in projecting sluttish eroticism.
• Parkinson: You are, in quotes, a serious actress [makes air quote fingers]
  Helen Mirren: In quotes? [...] What do you mean in quotes? How dare you.
  Parkinson: Serious actress [...] as opposed to an unserious actress.
• Parkinson: Do you find it to be fact that, what could be best described as your equipment [...] hinders you in that pursuit [of being considered a serious actress]?
  Helen Mirren: I'd like you to explain what you mean by my equipment in greater detail.
  Parkinson: Your physical attributes.
  Mirren: You mean my fingers?
  • Parkinson interview (8 February 1975), as cited in "Watch a Young Helen Mirren Stand Up to Grotesquely Sexist Interviewer in 1975", Vanity Fair (22 August 2016)