I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

My best friend is my husband.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

[N]o lie can live forever...

Saying that someone is full of themselves is silly. Who else can one be full of … except self?

Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

Okay greasers,you've had it.

I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.