You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.
It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.
I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
Revenge doesn't stop.
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
I don't care what other people are doing.
Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
