I'm always fearful. … Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.

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

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Communism is quite obviously still a threat. Yes, they are human beings, with a right to their point of view . . .

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.