Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

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

First they will laugh... after that they will either deny or follow you.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

When you're not in love, when you don't have love, everybody you know falls in love.

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

Sometimes you do a film because the script is amazing, sometimes you do it because you get to work with amazing people, and sometimes you do a film because they pay you money.

But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.