However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

Love?! When a piece of broke heart hits you.

I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life’s dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

I guess what inspires me is when I am watching somebody else do something that really has an impact on me. That inspires me to want to do that in return.

We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy and president of the European Commission for more than five years.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.