The new Bond film, will be a big, big hit, because every Bond film is an event. Fathers take their sons to it; probably grandfathers. It's been a long time, and I think that the success of Bond is because the audiences have never been cheated by the producers. They always spend every penny, put it on the screen, and then the things that people expect to see in a Bond film - big action scenes, glamorous ladies - it's pure escapism.

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.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

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

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.