The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

It was a musty sweet smell. "Is this plague city?

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they?

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.