Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

I loved my mother and father.

When I went to Hollywood, I had to work out in a gym. The idea was that I should look like Daniel Craig, though they hadn't even met him at that point.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

Selling your country's secrets is always wrong.

Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

I just want to be remembered as somebody who paid his debts.

I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

I would have loved to play a real baddie.

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.

Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!

I was considered chubby as a teen.

You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

Oh yes, I love gadgets.

I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.

My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get into because we don't have the key. But when we do get the key, we'll go in there, and we'll see one another again, in some shape or form or whatever. It's not the end.

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

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

During my early acting years, I was told that to succeed, you needed personality, talent, and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me, it's been 99% luck.

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

I'd occasionally do some exercises at home, but I never cared for gyms.

I was probably a little bit overweight as a child, being passionate about baked beans on toast and Cadbury's milk chocolate when I could get it.

Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the real Sellers.

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.

My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.

Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it was decided that I should have my tonsils removed and adenoids scraped at the same time.

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

When I was doing Bond, I was always being sent scripts to play the derring-do hero, with explosions going on all around.

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

Sammy Davis Jr. was a real movie buff who loved nothing better than being around a film studio - whether he was working or not.

I'm a little devil.

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

I replaced Jim Garner in 'Maverick.' I replaced George Sanders in 'The Saint.' I've replaced everybody.

Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

I spent my life playing heroes because I looked like one.

I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.

'Skyfall' was marvellous, the best Bond film ever made.

I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.