There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Sometimes a woman just needs to be slapped.

[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.

I don't think I'll ever act again.

I've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful - and financially rewarding.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.