The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

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

Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty

Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.

There Is Only One Gospel... But The Preaching Is Different.

I think everyone should learn how to code.

It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.

And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.