Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing. It's very telling what your choice would be. Because that's probably how you see yourself. We used to play that game as kids and you'd say if you were animal what would you be and it'd usually be the opposite of what it should be. But all animals have got their virtues. You know, cockroaches got virtues.

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

I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.

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

We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too much money to ignore.

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

There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain.