Anna Russell(1911-2006)

As Russell pondered the complex family relations of Wagner's doomed and addled Siegfried and followed him from the rock of Brunnhilde to the palace of Gutrune, she paused to note that Gutrune is "the only woman that Siegfried's ever come across who wasn't his aunt. I'm not making this up, you know!" The line became her catchphrase and the title of her 1985 autobiography.

[Describing the plot of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelungs"] I'm not making this up, you know!