A secret is a secret in my mind.

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'

There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.

We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!

Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

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

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

“I spend time in bookstores because one idea from a book or magazine can make me money.”

“Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.”

“Never settle. There is no need to rush.”

I got through college.

I'm a really bad liar.

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

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

I take my work seriously.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

Good scripts are hard to find.

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

I've done a lot of things in my life.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.

I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

I've been very lucky.

The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

I have to be myself.