I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.

The only real failure is the failure to try.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

There's nothing good about being my age.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

God, he was going to destroy her. But maybe for the first time in her life, she’d found a man worth shattering for.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Ann Romney: 'The hardest part of being a stay at home mom was deciding which of our homes to stay at.'

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.