I'd hate to feel in a comfort zone while I am working. That's not the way I like to do things. I want to be pressurized and challenged every day.

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.

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: "What the heck is going on down there?

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Social Media isn't about reach as much as it is about "reach out".

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.