People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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

To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

Dogs act exactly the way we would act if we had no shame.

If you do not pray, everything can disappoint you by going wrong. If you do pray, everything can still go wrong, but not in a way that will disappoint you.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

I cannot live without children.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.