If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world. You ultimately would go crazy, wouldn't you?

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!

​You can't Believe in Yourself, till People Believe in You.

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years.

We don't have to wait for something nice to happen to us, we can be aggressive and do something nice for ourselves.

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.

I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.