Work certainly does help fill a void.

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

Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.

To conquer the land we need to win a battle

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

I'm in San Francisco because of the energy, the ideas, and the fact that this is a great place for me to land. When I'm traveling and working nationally, I love coming back here.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

A champion isn’t made of muscle; a champion is made of heart.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past