Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

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.

Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.

[I spend a] lot [time travelling]. Between the restaurants, filming for TV, producing MasterChef, seeing the kids... it's pretty constant.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.