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.

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

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?

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 have to be strategic in your action

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.

That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.

The Democrats need to govern for all Americans as well as deliver for their core constituencies. It will be difficult for them to do both.

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.