It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.

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

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

My dream stood in the way of appreciating what I did have.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it. I hated everyone, for they were so phony. I don't give a damn about my bad reputation

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.

Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.