'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.

If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world. You ultimately would go crazy, wouldn't you?

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.

Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

We are reformers in Spring and Summer in Autumn and Winter we stand by the old reformers in the morning conservers at night.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association