If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.

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.

I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.

A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute.

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.