More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.