There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

I think finding the right person and being with the right person is probably the answer to most things.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

I love vodka martinis. I know it's a cliché.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

It was like the first time I visited Versailles. There was an eerieness, like I'd been there before. I don't know if I was Louis XIV or Marie Antoinette or a lowly groundskeeper, but I lived there.

A winner rebukes and forgives a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

I enjoy pumping iron, but I do try and get the yoga, 'cause it's a nice balance to the weightlifting.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

My nature just changes.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.

It is almost impossible to grow a company of any size and worth unless you expand beyond yourself