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Bond has afforded me a great personal passport, which I use for UNICEF.
I must admit that I was in total awe of Stewart Granger. He was my idol.
I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.
It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set.
If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.
I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.
I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!
I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.
It's no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.
I've been married four times and caused a great deal of hurt and upset around me.
I do a lot of cooking; we eat a lot of fish, but I try not to make fattening things.
Practically everything I've been offered didn't require much beyond looking like me.
We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.
Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.
Lana Turner taught me how to kiss on the set of the movie 'Diane' in the early Fifties.
I think 'The Spy Who Loved Me' was the best, or rather the one I enjoyed doing the most.
I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.
Movies such as this remind us that Owen Wilson is nothing less than a national treasure.
I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming.
I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days.
Showbusiness is such a mad profession, I find commerce a wonderful outlet for keeping me sane.
I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.
I am privileged to be at the right end of violins: not the end holding it but to listen to it.
I was fortunately always offered jobs because I was so pretty. Women used to complain about it!
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.
My parents adored me, and I had a very happy childhood, so maybe I just sort of expect to be loved.
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.
It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
I replaced Jim Garner in 'Maverick.' I replaced George Sanders in 'The Saint.' I've replaced everybody.
I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.
When I filmed 'Live And Let Die' with Jane Seymour, I kept my socks on in bed, as it was such a cold set.
Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.
Sadly, I had to retire from the Bond films. The girls were getting younger, and I was just getting too old.
Rex Harrison could be a rather mean-spirited man, and he wasn't regarded very warmly by those who knew him.
Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' without music: that's brilliant.
Actors don't really sit around discussing the parts they've played - just in case someone says, 'That was crap!'
Bond may be a very international, cosmopolitan kind of character, but underneath it all, he is essentially British.
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.
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.
Sammy Davis Jr. was a real movie buff who loved nothing better than being around a film studio - whether he was working or not.
You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.
What was good about 'Moonraker' was that we had Jaws back, because after 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' he became a well-loved villain.
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.
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.
The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.