THEY SAID WHAT?

“Whipping up military hysteria makes absolutely no sense in this situation. This is a road to nowhere” – Russian President Vladimir Putin on the North Korea crisis

“I’d say my dancing is maybe 4/10 or, when I have a drink in me, 6/10” – actress and Strictly contestant Gemma Atkinson, pictured

“Because I’m notionally famous, what I found moving about the ceremony was the amount of ordinary people who got awards for services to education, or health. I was trying to work out ‘Why me?”’ – Sir Ray Davies muses on getting his knighthood

“I’m obviously going be the first female James Bond. Move over, Daniel Craig” – Downton Abbey star Joanne Froggatt

“It’s so anarchic, I love it. It’s much more like me than anything else ... I invented swearing!” – actress Dame Judi Dench revels in Tracey Ullman’s description of her as a “troublesome pensioner”

“Every single person I knew became rich” – actor Sir Michael Caine looks back on his youth

“I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs” – Jeremy Corbyn on how he first became a vegetarian

“Getting in and out of horse-drawn carriages at my age! They are very high and impossible to get into and out of. There is a lot of huffing, puffing and groaning”

– Dame Diana Rigg, 79, now starring in the ITV drama Victoria