I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.

I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip and Hollywood Boulevard with the stars.

I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.

Fans made me. The fans gave me a chance, and they made me. Beyond that, my career has been trials and tribulations and ups and downs, so I have to have true fans riding with me.

I've always been a daydreamer. When the other kids were playing, I was listening to the roar at Yankee Stadium - I was always attracted to the roar of the crowd.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

I'm in the studio 24 hours a day. It's true that once you get a certain level of success, you become a target. Talk magazine should be ashamed of themselves.

My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound.

There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

I don't think I'll ever act again.

But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.

I don't know anything about baseball.

I find that fame tends to turn one from an actor and a human being into a piece of merchandise, a public institution.

The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.

People used to call me Bond in the street. It was impossible to avoid crowds of people all over the place and blinding flashguns. The Beatles had to run the gauntlet as well, but at least there were four of them!

My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

I did many other things before I ever got into the movies. I've been in so many businesses, it's a joke. All of them totally unsuited to me. Selling used cars. Running a club in London.

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament.

I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.

I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.

I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

I'm swimming every day and I'm even trying to get the golf swing working again - but that might take a little bit longer.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.