Nothing is stopping me from doing anything. I haven't got a golden handcuff.

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.

Think larger. Redraw what is possible.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.

One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.