I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

I take the good with the bad. I can't love people in slices.

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.