When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

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.

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

You have the capacity to do all the work you can.

Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

That's a yellow card for Cazoria. So the next time he's involved in Europe, he won't be.

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.