I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders.

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.

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.

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

Dive deep and make your discovery.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

Having a secure border is a sovereign right and mutually beneficial.

Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats. I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me ... I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.