I loved my mother and father.

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

I'm the fourth best James Bond.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Of course, I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right

Always tell the truth –– or the truth will tell on you. Honest.

if this is a dream, then look in my eye's, am i asleep, no i'm alive, just can't believe that, this is my life, 'cause every moment is just so wild

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.

I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.