Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.

Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action!

In short, if you are using a shovel to dig yourself into a hole, a credit card company will be happy to give you a backhoe.

I love my fans very much. They give me the confidence to continue things in life.

It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life...

I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the world.

Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.