Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!

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

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.

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.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

The most savage of human kind are the most advanced

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.

The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.