I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.

The only real failure is the failure to try.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

There's nothing good about being my age.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

The difference between where you are now and where you will get to later defines your range of work which you have to be responsible for.

And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge, " the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.

With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

I look really good in a scuba suit.

Doing something right once in a while will far surpass anything done wrong more often.

Everything becomes closer once you realize that the world is only as far away as a nap and a meal.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

I think it is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we're good.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

In my very first Wrestlemania match, I won. 17 wins from tying the Undertaker. Don't laugh.