People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

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

i didn't call myself a writer until everyone else did. i knew it was real then.

Be as advertised.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions not the year's.

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or angry as his music.

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.