I was not born with tremendous ambition.

I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting.

Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

The Bond situations to me are so ridiculous, so outrageous. I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy, and yet everybody knows he's a spy.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

I think 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most.

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

I do a lot of cooking; we eat a lot of fish, but I try not to make fattening things.

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.

I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano.

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

I never thought I was much of an actor anyway.

I never stopped working.

I'm the worst Bond, according to the internet. Generally hated!

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.

I'm very lucky.

To be associated with success is absolutely wonderful.

People are always reading things into the films.

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.