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.

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

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

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop.

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.

It takes the same amount of energy to worry as it does to believe.

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!

Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

At the end of the day, the Washington establishment is going to go where they're going to go.