I'll make phone calls. I'll call anybody and knock on any door to try and get a location, or get an actor, or get an actress. But no, it was just very easy. We just hit the ground running.

My mother was the prettiest woman in the town. He was a bit older than her. They made me. And he split.

I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, "Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together," and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

America gave me the great glory of coming into people's homes every week and allowed me to last as long as I have.

It felt after the Bonds, after my four outings as James Bond, there seemed to be unfinished business. And the way that the Bond finished in my life and the demise of Bond going off stage left into the night, it seemed like there was a certain void there, as they say, of unfinished business.